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Art Institute of Chicago

The Artist's Mother-in-Law

Max Pechstein

1910

Attribution
Max Pechstein German, 1881-1955
Medium
Gouache on cream wove paper
Physical dimensions
33 × 25 cm (13 × 9 7/8 in.)
Credit line
Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Alan Press and Olivia Shaler Swan Fund
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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.

Description: Art Institute of Chicago · CC BY 4.0

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