Art, literature & history
Half-Nude Woman Holding Her Hair Apart
c. 1898
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- charcoal with black and brown chalks on wove paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 76.3 x 42.7 cm (30 1/16 x 16 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1995.83.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Paula Modersohn-Becker. Half-Nude Woman Holding Her Hair Apart. Paula Modersohn-Becker; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paula_Modersohn-Becker,_Half-Nude_Woman_Holding_Her_Hair_Apart,_c._1898,_NGA_93838.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Half-Nude Woman Holding Her Hair Apart — Paula Modersohn-Becker. c. 1898.
Medium: charcoal with black and brown chalks on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 76.3 x 42.7 cm (30 1/16 x 16 13/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1995.83.1. Gift of Robert Paul Mann and Dorothy Neeld Mann.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.