ID 717744
Los 65 | HERMANN MAX PECHSTEIN (1881-1955)
Schätzwert
£ 1 000 000 – 1 500 000
Vier Akte in Landschaft
signed with initials and dated 'HMP 912' (lower right)
oil on canvas
28 x 32 in. (71.3 x 81.3 cm.)
Painted in Nidden on 25 September 1912
Provenance
Hugo & Gertrud Simon, Berlin, Paris & Brazil.
Confiscated from the above following the Nazi occupation of Paris, in June 1940.
In temporary custodianship of the Musées Nationaux Récupération (inv. no. AM 4363 P) since 1966, allocated to the collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and on loan at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, from 1998-2021.
Restituted to the heirs of Hugo & Gertrud Simon, 2021.
Literature
A. de la Beaumelle, ed., La collection du Musée national d'art moderne, Paris, 1986, p. 465 (illustrated titled 'Paysage').
A. Soika, Max Pechstein: Das Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde, vol. I, 1905-1918, Munich, 2011, no. 1912⁄32, p. 398 (illustrated).
Exhibited
London, New Burlington Galleries, Exhibition of Twentieth Century German Art, July - August 1938 (ex. cat.).
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Figures du moderne: L'expressionnisme en Allemagne, 1905-1914, Dresde, Munich, Berlin, November 1992 - March 1993, no. 112, p. 386 (illustrated; titled 'Paysage').
Kiel, Kunsthalle, Max Pechstein. Ein Expressionist aus Leidenschaft. Retrospektive, September 2010 - January 2011, no. 113, p. 100 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Regensburg, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, March - June 2011; and Ahlen, Kunstmuseum, July - October 2011.
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Dedicated Presentation, July 2021.
New York, The Jewish Museum, Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art, August 2021 - January 2022 (ex. cat.).
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Post Lot Text
| Künstler: | Max Pechstein (1881 - 1955) |
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| Angewandte Technik: | Öl, Gemalt |
| Material: | Leinwand, Textilien |
| Kunst Stil: | Expressionismus, Moderne Kunst |
| Herkunftsort: | Westeuropa, Deutschland, Europa |
| Künstler: | Max Pechstein (1881 - 1955) |
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| Angewandte Technik: | Öl, Gemalt |
| Material: | Leinwand, Textilien |
| Kunst Stil: | Expressionismus, Moderne Kunst |
| Herkunftsort: | Westeuropa, Deutschland, Europa |
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