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A work made of gouache on cream wove paper.

The Artist's Mother-in-Law

1910

Max Pechstein German, 1881-1955

Germany

When this drawing was acquired in 1985, the sitter had been identified as Pechstein's first wife, Lotte. In 1988, the museum was contacted by his son, Max Pechstein, who identified the subject not as Lotte, but as Lotte's mother, Frau Kaprolat.

Gouache on cream wove paper

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