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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 Catalogue raisonné: Unpublished.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.

Thin letterhead paper, slight foxing, minimal damage to the sheet edges, on the reverse rust marks from a paperclip

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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