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15 Max Pechstein

Zwickau 1881 – 1955 Berlin

„Ein Sonntag“.

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. Catalogue raisonné: Soika 1921/14. Framed

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