Hermann Max Pechstein Lot n° 23

PECHSTEIN, HERMANN MAX 1881 Zwickau - 1955 Berlin Title: "Unterhaltung". Date: 1920. Technique: Oil on canvas. Measurement: 80 x 100cm. Notation: Monogrammed and dated lower right: HMP 1920. Once more signed and dated verso. Here additionally inscribed with work number and titled: 30 (circled) Unterhaltung. Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame. In the workshop book kept by Max Pechstein in the 1920s, the painting is noted for the year 1920 with the entry "30) Unterhaltung". Provenance: - Galerie van Diemen, Berlin - Private collection Berlin - Galerie Gerd Rosen, Berlin - Private collection Bavaria - Art dealer Alexander Gebhardt, Munich - Galerie Thomas, Munich - Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (since 1972) Exhibitions: - Galerie Goyert, Cologne 1921 - Kunstsalon Ludwig Schames, Frankfurt a. M. 1921 - Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover 1922 - Kunstgebäude am Schloßplatz, Stuttgart 1924 - Dankwarderode Castle, Brunswick 1925 Literature: - Soika, Aya: Max Pechstein - Das Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde, vol. II, 1919-1954, Munich 2011, cat. rais. no. 1920/32, ill. - Exhib. cat. H.M. Pechstein and Rudolf Belling, Galerie Goyert, Cologne 1921, cat. no. 29, ill. - Exhib. cat. H.M. Pechstein, Kunstsalon Ludwig Schames, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, cat. no. 26 - Exhib. cat. Max Pechstein, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover 1922, cat. no. 46 - Exhib. cat. Neue deutsche Kunst - Stuttgarter Kunstsommer, Kunstgebäude am Schloßplatz, Stuttgart 1924, cat. no. 159 - Exhib. cat. of the second large summer exhibition of the Künstlerbund Niedersachen e.V., Dankwarderode Castle, Brunswick 1925, cat. no. 117 - Harmonious composition in which Pechstein depicts the unity of all creatures and their interconnectedness - The light-flooded colours and the faces of the sitters show a clear recollection of his trip to Palau in 1914 - In this museal work, Pechstein brings his longing for exotic cultures and their special nativeness to the canvas. Explanations to the Catalogue Estimated shipping costs for this lot: Arrangement after the auction.