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125000184
Hermann Max Pechstein
Wiesen, 1928.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000

 
$ 46,800 - 70,200

Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Hermann Max Pechstein
1881 - 1955

Wiesen. 1928.
Oil on canvas.
Signed (partly in ligature) and dated in the lower right. Signed (partly in ligature), titled, and inscribed with the artist's address on the reverse. 70 x 80 cm (27.5 x 31.4 in). [CH].


• The Last Paradise: Between 1927 and 1933, Pechstein spent carefree summers in Rowe ( today: Rowy) in what was then Pomerania.
• The artist used cool and vibrant colors to depict the rich landscape between the Baltic Sea and Lake Garder.
• Part of a Hessian private collection for 70 years
.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Ernst Arnold, Dresden ( with the gallery label on the frame).
Kunsthandel Prestel, Frankfurt am Main.
Private collection, Hesse (acquired from the above in 1955).
In family ownership ever since.

EXHIBITION: Max Pechstein, Galerie Victor Hartberg, Berlin, January 25–February 27, 1929, cat. no. 16 (on commission directly from the artist).
Max Pechstein, F. A. C. Prestel Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, October 31–November 30, 1955, cat. no. 42 (leaflet).

LITERATURE: Aya Soika, Max Pechstein. The Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings, Vol. II, Munich 2011, p. 305, CR no. 1928/10 ( illustrated)

ARCHIVE MATERIAL: Exhibition list, Galerie Victor Hartberg, Berlin, January 25–February 27, 1929, no. 16 (Hermann Max Pechstein workshop book, p. 217, Pechstein Archive, Hamburg).

"It's a very remote place, but the landscape is beautiful and, above all, you can walk around there as you please, completely uninhibited [..].”
Hermann Max Pechsteinin a letter to his friend Alexander Gerbig, quoted from: Aya Soika, Max Pechstein. The Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings, Vol. I, Munich 2011, p. 79.




125000184
Hermann Max Pechstein
Wiesen, 1928.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000

 
$ 46,800 - 70,200

Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.

 


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