Straße in Paris. 1908.
Tempera over pencil drawing.
Lower right monogrammed, dated and inscribed "Paris". On delicate brownish wove paper. 25 x 32.3 cm (9.8 x 12.7 in), the full sheet.
[AM].
• With a particularly captivating use of light and color.
• Pechstein lived in Paris from December 1907 until July 1908 - he rendered his impressions of the metropolis in this sheet.
• Similar works from Pechstein's early creative period are very rare on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).

Accompanied by a photo expertise (duplicate) from Max K. Pechstein, Hamburg, issued in July 1991.

PROVENANCE: Collection Ludwig Freund (1874-1935), Berlin/Mannheim (acquired around 1920).
Elisabeth Freund (1895-1962), neé Numrich (the above's wife, inherited).
Lotte Fanni (Charlotte) Heath, neé Freund (1918-2017, daughter of the above) and Georg Mostyn Heath (1914–2002), Herdfordshire (obtained from the above in 1950).
Private collection Rhineland.

EXHIBITION: 16th exhibition of the Berlin Secession: Zeichnende Künste, Berlin, 1908, cat. no. 904.

LITERATURE: Sotheby's Berlin, Auction 'Deutsche Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts', November 28, 1991, lot 12.
"I traveled to Paris in December. Here I was also more attracted by the Cluny Museum and the Gothic sculptures of the cathedrals, Notre-Dame and Saint-Denisthe, than by the art of the nineteenth century. But what charmed me the most, even if I avoided mingling with painters and poets, was the life of the Seine city, its crowds [..]. On foot, I walked through the old Paris, with its air saturated with history. I looked at the beauty of the bridges and the panorama up to the lost palaces of the Ile-Saint-Louis. I don't need to mention that I visited all the art exhibitions, that I eagerly browsed the show windows of the bouquinists on the Quai.."
Hermann Max Pechstein on his stay in Paris 1907-08, quoted from: Jürgen Schilling, Max Pechstein. Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, ex. cat. Kunstverein Wolfsburg, October 4 - November 15, 1987, p. 10.