The Artist's Mother-in-Law
Max Pechstein
1910
- Medium
- Gouache on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 33 × 25 cm (13 × 9 7/8 in.)
- Genre
- gouache
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)paintgouacheprints and drawingwatercolorcoating (material)paper (fiber product)water-base paint
About
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.
