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Max Pechstein

Zwickau 1881 – 1955 Berlin

Moonlight dance (Palau). Circa 1922

Pen on paper. 4°.
This picture shows the following artwork: Max Pechstein. Moonlight dance (Palau). Circa 1922.

Estimate:

EUR 3,000

 

- 4,000

USD 4,080

 

- 5,440

Sold for:

4,375 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 215-221

ORANGERIE. Selected Objects, Thursday, 28.11.2013

Information

Pen on paper. 4°. Signed on second page lower left: HMPechstein. Inscribed on the reverse in pencil, MAX PECHSTEIN (1881- ) / Description of a dance given in Laia of his / arrival on a South Sea-Island. Catalogue raisonné: Unpublished. Thin letterhead paper, slight foxing, minimal damage to the sheet edges, on the reverse rust marks from a paperclip.

Related literature: Aya Soika: Max Pechstein. A Südsee-Insulaner in Berlin; in: Ralph Melcher (ed.): Die Brücke in der Südsee – Exotik der Farbe, exh. cat., Saarbruecken 2005, p. 71-83

We would like to thank Prof. Dr. Aya Soika, Zossen, who prepared the Pechstein catalogue raisonné, for the valuable information provided.

Presumably private collection, USA / private collection, Bavaria

Sources: Max Hermann Pechstein his later Palau diary: 31 July 1914 „glitzernder Mondscheintanz“ ("glittering moonlight dance") / 14 August 1914 „Wir warten auf den Vollmond. Auf den Tanz!“ ("We are waiting for the full moon. For the dance!")

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