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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 4, 2025 | Sotheby's | London | Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction | 41 | $****** - ****** | Zirkuspause (The Intermission) |
paintings
78.7 x 68.8 cm (30.98 x 27.09 in)
oil on canvas
signed with the initials HMP and dated 1923 (lower left); signed HMPechstein , inscribed Berlin W. 62 Kurfürstenstr 126 and titled (on the reverse)
Private Collection, Saint Louis
Sotheby"s New York, 16 May 1979, lot 106 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Akademie der Künste zu Berlin, Frühjahrs-Ausstellung (mit Sonderausstellung Max Pechstein) , 1924, no. 149
Aya Soika, Max Pechstein: Das Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde , vol. II, Munich, 2011, no. 1923/30, p. 312, illustrated in colour
Max Pechstein
1881 - 1955
Zirkuspause (The Intermission)
signed with the initials HMP and dated 1923 (lower left); signed HMPechstein , inscribed Berlin W. 62 Kurfürstenstr 126 and titled (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
78.7 by 68.8 cm. 31 by 27⅛ in.
Executed in 1923.