Sale: 522 / Modern Art II, Dec. 11. 2021 in Munich button next Lot 434

 

434
Hermann Max Pechstein
Sitzender Frauenakt, 1912.
Charcoal drawing, with glazing watercolors
Estimate:
€ 10,000 / $ 11,800
Sold:
€ 20,000 / $ 23,600

(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).




434
Hermann Max Pechstein
Sitzender Frauenakt, 1912.
Charcoal drawing, with glazing watercolors
Estimate:
€ 10,000 / $ 11,800
Sold:
€ 20,000 / $ 23,600

(incl. surcharge)

 


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