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Spirit of Colour: Property from an Important Canadian Estate

Max Pechstein

Frühling (Spring)

Auction Closed

March 5, 04:45 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Spirit of Colour: Property from an Important Canadian Estate

Max Pechstein

1881 - 1955


Frühling (Spring)

signed HMPechstein (lower left)

oil on canvas

68.8 by 78.7 cm. 26⅞ by 30¾ in.

Framed: 86.5 by 97 cm. 34 by 38¼ in.

Executed in 1918.

Kunsthandel, Bremen (acquired circa 1947-48)

Private Collection, USA (acquired circa 1947-48 and until 1989)

Christie's, New York, 11 May 1989, lot 284

Private Collection, Canada (acquired from the above sale)

Thence by descent in 2018 to the present owner

Exh. Cat., Berlin, Brucke-Museum (and travelling), Max Pechstein, Sein maferisches Werk, 1996-97, no. 107, illustrated in colour (dated 1919)

Aya Soika, Max Pechstein: Das Werkverze1chnis der Olgemalde, vol. I, Munich, 2011. no. 1918/27, p. 599, illustrated in colour