Sale: 601 / Day Sale, Dec. 06. 2025 in Munich 
Lot 125001057
Lot 125001057
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125001057
Hermann Max Pechstein
Zwei Köpfe, 1920.
Watercolor over pencil on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000
$ 46,400 - 69,600
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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).
125001057
Hermann Max Pechstein
Zwei Köpfe, 1920.
Watercolor over pencil on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000
$ 46,400 - 69,600
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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