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Hermann Max Pechstein
Zwei Köpfe, 1920.
Watercolor over pencil on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 47,200 Sold:
€ 103,200 / $ 121,776 (incl. surcharge)
172
Hermann Max Pechstein
Zwei Köpfe, 1920.
Watercolor over pencil on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 47,200 Sold:
€ 103,200 / $ 121,776 (incl. surcharge)
Hermann Max Pechstein
1881 - 1955
Zwei Köpfe. 1920.
Watercolor over pencil on cardboard.
Signed and dated in the lower right. 51 x 75.5 cm (20 x 29.7 in), the full sheet.
[AR].
• Large-format, expressive double portrait with powerful expressiveness.
• Magnificently accentuated with intense watercolors, creating a pictorial effect.
• From the period after the end of World War I, a time when Pechstein found a new formal language.
• The artist spends the summer in Nidden, and his sensitive portraits and landscapes from this period testify to the great inspiration he drew from his retreat.
• Part of an important private collection in Berlin for almost 40 years.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Berlin (since 1987: Christie's, London).
LITERATURE: Kornfeld und Klipstein, Bern, Auction 112, Modern Art, May 27-29, 1964, Lot 1046 (with illustration, plate 89).
Christie's, London, Impressionist and Modern Watercolors and Drawings, December 1, 1987, Lot 350 (with color illustration on p. 58).
1881 - 1955
Zwei Köpfe. 1920.
Watercolor over pencil on cardboard.
Signed and dated in the lower right. 51 x 75.5 cm (20 x 29.7 in), the full sheet.
[AR].
• Large-format, expressive double portrait with powerful expressiveness.
• Magnificently accentuated with intense watercolors, creating a pictorial effect.
• From the period after the end of World War I, a time when Pechstein found a new formal language.
• The artist spends the summer in Nidden, and his sensitive portraits and landscapes from this period testify to the great inspiration he drew from his retreat.
• Part of an important private collection in Berlin for almost 40 years.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Berlin (since 1987: Christie's, London).
LITERATURE: Kornfeld und Klipstein, Bern, Auction 112, Modern Art, May 27-29, 1964, Lot 1046 (with illustration, plate 89).
Christie's, London, Impressionist and Modern Watercolors and Drawings, December 1, 1987, Lot 350 (with color illustration on p. 58).
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