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Ernst Kirchner’s First-Ever Self-Portrait—and the First to Come to Auction in Decades—Could Sell for Nearly $15 Million

The work is thought to have been inspired by Van Gogh's famous self-portrait with a straw hat and pipe. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Self-portrait with a pipe (1907). Photo courtesy of Sotheby's. Jo ...
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The Permanent Collection: A Female Expressionist’s Revelatory Final Self-Portrait

Neue Galerie curatorial director Janis Staggs discusses Paula Modersohn-Becker's last portrait. The full-size work by Paula Modersohn-Becker, Selbstbildnis mit zwei Blumen in der erhobenen linken Hand ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Mary Abbott Worked Alongside Abstract Expressionists Like Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock. Now, She’s Finally Getting Her Due

Some say there were just two rules governing the Club, a group of leading Abstract Expressionists in mid-century New York City. One was technical: Any two founding members could block a new applicant ...