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Spirit of Colour: Property from an Important Canadian Estate

Max Pechstein

Winternachmittag (Winter Afternoon)

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


Winternachmittag (Winter Afternoon)

signed HMPechstein (lower right); signed HMPechstein, titled, dated 1922 and numbered (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

80.4 by 100.2 cm. 31⅝ by 39½ in.

Framed: 98.5 by 118.5 cm. 38¾ by 46⅝ in.

Executed in 1922.

Galerie Lutz and Co., Berlin (acquired in 1922-23)

Dr Clairmont, Switzerland (acquired in April 1923)

Kunsthandel, Basel (acquired in 1954)

Private Collection, Berlin

Private Collection, Gelsenkirchen

Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 1-2 June 1984, lot 524

Private Collection, Canada (acquired from the above sale)

Thence by descent in 2018 to the present owner

Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Max Pechstein, 1923, no. 69, listed (dated 1921)

Exh. Cat., Berlin, Brucke-Museum (and travelling), Max Pechstein, Sein malerisches Werk, 1996-97, no. 129, illustrated in colour

Andrzej Czarnik, Pomorskie plenery Maxa Pechsteina, Stupsk, 2003, n.p., illustrated in colour

Aya Soika, Max Pechstein: Das Werkverzeichnis der Olgemalde, vol. II. Munich. 2011, no. 1922/12. p. 267. illustrated in colour