Zwickau 1881 – 1955 Berlin
„Ein Sonntag“. 1921
Oil on canvas. 80 x 100 cm (31 ½ x 39 ⅜ in.) Signed (joined) lower right: HMPechstein. On the reverse in black inscribed with the work number, titled and signed: 1921 (12 Ein Sonntag HMPechstein
Provenance
Dr. Walter Minnich, Montreux (acquired circa 1921 from the artist, until 1937) / Kunstmuseum, Lucerne (acquired 1937 as a donation from Walter and Alice Minnich, inv. no. KH 320, „Sonntag, Kornfeld“) / the art dealer Gerhard Brauer, Amsterdam (acquired 1964 from the Kunstmuseum Lucerne, until 1969) art trade, Hamburg (acquired 1969) / private collection, Switzerland
EUR 500,000 - 700,000
USD 539,000 - 754,000
Sold for:
865,000 EUR (incl. premium)
Auctions 237-246
Van Gogh to Twombly. Selected Works, 4 June 2015
Exhibition
Max Pechstein. Zurich, Kunsthaus, 1923, cat. no. 65 („Sonntagmorgen, Kornfeld“) (?)
Literature and illustration
Auktion 508: Kunst des XX. Jahrhunderts. Cologne, Kunsthaus Math. Lempertz, 4./5.12.1969, cat. no. 4869, ill. pl. 2 / Isabel Greschat and Christoph Lichtin (eds.): Der Sammler Walter Minnich und das Kunstmuseum Luzern. Pechstein, Melzer, Soutine, Terechkovitch [on the occasion of the exhibition „Modell für ein Museum’“, Luzern, Kunstmuseum, 2006/07]. Heidelberg, Kehrer Verlag, 2006, p. 38, note 74