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MAX PECHSTEIN (1881-1955)

Lot 542
03.03.2023 13:00UTC +00:00
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Starting price
£ 400 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 908386
Lot 542 | MAX PECHSTEIN (1881-1955)
Estimate value
£ 400 000 – 600 000
MAX PECHSTEIN (1881-1955)

Rotes Zelt mit weiblichem Akt: Danae

signed and dated 'Pechstein 1911' (lower left)

oil on canvas

27 3/4 x 31 3/4 in. (70.5 x 80.5 cm.)

Painted in Nidden in 1911





Provenance

Dr. Karl Lilienfeld, Leipzig, Berlin & New York, by whom acquired in 1917, until 1966.

Margarete Lilienfeld, New York, by whom acquired in 1966, until the early 1980s.

Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Bremen, by whom acquired in 1983.

Charles Tabachnick, Toronto, by whom acquired in 1983, until 1988.

Mrs. Frederick Haviland Burgevin, New York.

Acquired from the above; sale, Sotheby's, London, 28 June 1988, lot 42.

Private collection, Switzerland, by whom acquired in 1988, until circa 1990.

Galerie Thomas, Munich, by whom acquired in 1990.

Acquired by the father of the present owners by 1993.



Literature

T. Hoffmeister (ed.), Werke der Brücke-Künstler, exh. cat., Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich, 1997, p. 263 (illustrated).

G. Leistner, Max Pechstein, Blauer Tag, 1911, Regensburg, 2003, p. 39 (illustrated; titled 'Ruhender Akt im roten Zelt').

A. Soika, Max Pechstein, Das Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde, vol. I, 1905-1918, Munich, 2011, no. 1911/67, p. 357 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Leipzig, Kunstverein, Max Pechstein, March 1917, no. 7.

New York, Lilienfeld Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by Max Pechstein, December 1932, no. 5 (titled 'Nude').

Harvard University, Busch Reisinger Museum, on loan, 1935 - 1937.

San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, on loan, 24 May 1937 - mid-1938.

Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, on loan, 1947 - 1950.

Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Figures du moderne, l'expressionnisme en Allemagne 1905-1914, Dresden, Munich, Berlin, November 1992 - March 1993, no. 110, p. 386 (illustrated p. 142 ).

Rome, Complesso del Vittoriano, Gli espressionisti, 1905-1920, October 2002 - February 2003, p. 94 (illustrated).



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Artist:Max Pechstein (1881 - 1955)
Applied technique:Oil, Painted
Art style:Expressionism, Modern art
Place of origin:Western Europe, Germany, Europe
Auction house category:Paintings
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