‘Degenerate’ Paula Modersohn-Becker Painting Doubles Auction Record
A small, tightly focused self-portrait by German artist Paula Modersohn-Becker, who was long written out of art history but who has recently come in for renewed attention, made history at Berlin’s Grisebach auction house on Thursday. Selbstbildnis nach halblinks (Self-Portrait Looking Slightly Left), from 1906, measures just 10½ inches high, but fetched €1.3 million ($1.5 million) including fees,…















