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Max Pechstein

Zirkuspause (The Intermission)

Auction Closed

March 4, 08:29 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Max Pechstein

1881 - 1955


Zirkuspause (The Intermission)

signed with the initials HMP and dated 1923 (lower left); signed HMPechstein, inscribed Berlin W. 62 Kurfürstenstr 126 and titled (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

78.7 by 68.8 cm. 31 by 27⅛ in.

Executed in 1923.

Private Collection, Saint Louis

Sotheby's New York, 16 May 1979, lot 106 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Akademie der Künste zu Berlin, Frühjahrs-Ausstellung (mit Sonderausstellung Max Pechstein), 1924, no. 149 

Aya Soika, Max Pechstein: Das Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde, vol. II, Munich, 2011, no. 1923/30, p. 312, illustrated in colour