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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 4, 2019 | Dorotheum | Vienna | Modern Art | 39 | $****** - ****** | Junges Mädchen am Meer - Young Girl by the Sea | |||
Nov 25, 2015 | Van Ham | Cologne | Moderne Kunst, Zeitgenössische Kunst, Discoveries | 67 | $****** - ****** | Young Girl by the Sea |
paintings
80 x 100.5 cm (31.5 x 39.57 in)
oil on canvas
signed, dated HMPechstein 1923
Estate of the artist
Private Collection, London
Sale Sotheby’s Munich, 26.10.1988, lot 39
Private Collection, Munich (c. 1989)
Sale Christie´s Amsterdam, 18.6.1997, lot 356
Grisebach, Berlin sale 104, 29.11.2002, lot 43
Private Collection, Berlin
Max Pechstein. Ein Expressionist aus Leidenschaft. Retrospektive, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, Kunstmuseum Ahlen 2010/11
Aya Soika, Max Pechstein, Das Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde, Vol. 2,
1919–1954, Munich 2011, p. 314, no. 1923/34 (col. ill.)
Exhib. cat. Max Pechstein. Ein Expressionist aus Leidenschaft. Retrospektive, Kunsthalle zu Kiel/ Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg/ Kunstmuseum Ahlen 2010, cat. no. 160, p. 163 (with colour ill.)
signed, dated HMPechstein 1923, oil on canvas, 80 x 100.5 cm, framed
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Private Collection, London
Sale Sotheby's Munich, 26.10.1988, lot 39
Private Collection, Munich (c. 1989)
Sale Christie's Amsterdam, 18.6.1997, lot 356
Grisebach, Berlin sale 104, 29.11.2002, lot 43
Private Collection, Berlin
Exhibited:
Max Pechstein. An expressionist of passion. Retrospective, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, Kunstmuseum Ahlen 2010/11
Literature:
Aya Soika, Max Pechstein, The Catalog of Oil Paintings, Vol. 2,
1919-1954, Munich 2011, p. 314, no. 1923/34 (col. Ill.)
Exhib. cat. Max Pechstein. An expressionist of passion. Retrospective, Kunsthalle zu Kiel / Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg / Kunstmuseum Ahlen 2010, cat. no. 160, p. 163 (with color ill.)
Herman Max Pechstein had to give his long-term retreat to Nida, on the Curonian Spit, after the First World War. "In April 1921, I set off on the search by myself, with only the bare essentials in my backpack. Łebsko Lake and the Baltic Sea in Eastern Pomerania ... other other other other fisher fisher fisher fisher,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, , did bear a certain resemblance to the Curonian Spit, which encouraged me to work here.
... I learn not only to appreciate this coast, but also to love it. "(Max Pechstein, Erinnerungen, Wiesbaden 1963, p. 107f.)
Hermann Max Pechstein depicts depicting the landscape around Leba in his works from 1921 onwards. He was fascinated by the lakes' reflections of nature and the sky, which he captures using a spontaneous, almost brushstroke on the canvas to form compositions marked by gentle movement. He increasingly renounces the strong shades of expressionism in favor of calmer, more natural colors, arriving at a harmonious unity of form, content and color.
In "Young Girl by the Sea", Max Pechstein places Marta Möller in the landscape, between shifting sand dunes and the Baltic Sea. Marta, the daughter of Pechstein's Landlord, which was just sixteen, and served as his model from his very first stay in Leba in 1921. He married Marta in September 1923, after his divorce from his first wife, Lotte.
Max Pechstein is able to spontaneously capture the moment being experienced, which accounts for the suggestively visual charm of this composition. Pechstein depicts a highly intimate moment with Marta. Her gaze does not meet the artist's exactly, but wanders, lost in thought. Behind the young woman, in a wide vista opens to reveal the turquoise waves of the Baltic Sea.
In this peaceful work, Max Pechstein subtly draws on this yearning for paradise, and harmony between man and nature. This theme had already been published in 1914. It was published in 1914. In retreating to Leba, he sought, and found, a sense of immediacy and unadulteration, along with harmony between man and nature, which he Expresses in a beautiful way with this work.
