434
Hermann Max Pechstein
Sitzender Frauenakt, 1912.
Charcoal drawing, with glazing watercolors
Estimate:
€ 10,000 / $ 11,600
Sold:
€ 20,000 / $ 23,200

(incl. surcharge)
434
Hermann Max Pechstein
Sitzender Frauenakt, 1912.
Charcoal drawing, with glazing watercolors
Estimate:
€ 10,000 / $ 11,600
Sold:
€ 20,000 / $ 23,200

(incl. surcharge)
 

Sitzender Frauenakt. 1912.
Charcoal drawing, with glazing watercolors.
Bottom right monogrammed (in ligature) and dated. On thin brownish wove paper. 33.9 x 42.6 cm (13.3 x 16.7 in), size of sheet. [CH].

• Pechstein and Lotte spent a couple of weeks in Nida on the Curonian Spit the fall of the year this drawing was made.
• During this third sojourn in Nida the artist created more than twenty oil paintings, mostly depicting nudes in dunes, as well as watercolors, drawings and etchings.
• In the fall of 1912, this dynamic charcoal drawing, characterized by the subtle posture and composition of a nude on a sun-soaked beach, was certainly made as preliminary drawing for one of the oil paintings of which most are lost today
.

PROVENANCE: Collection Alexander Koch, Darmstadt (with the and-written note of ownership on the reverse).
Private collection Long Island, New York (until 1978: Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, December 12, 1978).
Collection Wiedemann, Berlin.
Galerie Barthelmess & Wischnewski, Berlin.
Private collection Berlin (acquired from the above in 2008).

EXHIBITION: Galerie Westenhoff, Lübeck 1980/81, cat. no. 57 (with illu., p. 37).

LITERATURE: Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 30th auction, 20. Jahrhundert, December 12, 1978, lot no. 1542 (with illu., p. 178).






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