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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 9, 2023 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Evening Sale | 50 | $****** - ****** | Boot bei aufgehender Sonne |
paintings
70.5 x 80 cm (27.76 x 31.5 in)
Oil on canvas
Lower right signed and dated. Signed, dated, titled and inscribed on the reverse
Private collection Bonn (ca. 1950s - 1980s). Private collection Frankfurt a. Main (until 2000). Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (since 2000, with the collector"s stamp on the stretcher, Lugt 6032).
• With an exhibition history that goes back to 1950: at "Haus der Kunst", Munich in 1950, as well as part of the grand Pechstein traveling exhibitions in 1996/97 at, among others, the Brücke Museum Berlin and the Kunsthalle Kiel in 2011 . Große Kunstausstellung München, Haus der Kunst, Sektion Neue Gruppe, July 13 - October 8, 1950, cat. no. 831 (with black-and-white illu., p. 88). Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus Privatbesitz in Bonn und Umgebung, Haus der Städtischen Kunstsammlungen, Bonn, May 21 - July 30, 1963, no. 92. Max Pechstein. Sein malerisches Werk, Brücke-Museum Berlin, September 22, 1996 - Jannuary 1, 1997; Kunsthalle Tübingen, January 11 - April 6, 1997; Kunsthalle Kiel, April 27 -June 15, 1997, cat. no. 162 (with illu.). Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 1995-2001). Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2001-2017). Max Pechstein. Ein Expressionist aus Leidenschaft. Retrospektive, Kunsthalle Kiel, September 19, 2010 - January 9, 2011; Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, March 6 - June 26, 2011; Kunstmuseum Ahlen, July 10 - October 30, 2011, cat. no. 227 (with illu., p. 265). Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022).
Ernst Thiele (ed.), Postkarten zur deutschen Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eine Bibliographie des deutschen Kunstrates e. V., Cologne 1958, p. 78. Max Pechstein, Ostsee-Bilder. Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Photografien, Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, July 9 - August 31, 1981; Stiftung Pommern, Kiel, September 19 - October 8, 1981, no. 27 (with black-and-white illu., p. 65). Paul R. Proskauer, Die Suche nach dem Primitiven. Pechsteins Suche nach dem unverfälschten Leben, in: New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, January 17, 1997 (with black-and-white illu.). Peter Thurmann, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff und Max Pechstein in ihren künstlerischen Beziehungen zu Vincent van Gogh und Henri Matisse, in: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Ein Maler des 20. Jahrhunderts. Gemälde, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen von 1905 bis 1972, Dortmund 2001/02, p.193 (with black-and-white illu. 8). Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 404, SHG no. 800 (with illu.). "Sunday August 14, 1949: What a beautiful summer day. Made a few sketches on the beach this morning, went swimming and lay in the sun on the beach until noon. After lunch, I had my fishermans food for the second time - flounder with potatoes, I just lay in front of the house and added corrections to my sketches a little later [..]." Max Pechstein, transl. entry in the Ückeritz travelog below the pencil sketch for " Boot bei aufgehender Sonne ", August 14, 1949, quoted from: Soika. Max Pechstein, vol. II, p. 37, illu. 8.37. "[..] finally got lucky and made my first sunrise down on the beach, a boat picture. It was for the rough sea that the fishermen coud not launch their boats, which was bad for them, but good for me, as it gave me leisure to work. I went down to the beach early at four thirty and this time not for nothing." Max Pechstein, transl. entry in the Ückeritz travelog, August 19, 1949, quoted from: Hermann Gerlinger, Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 404.
Boot bei aufgehender Sonne . 1949. Oil on canvas. Soika 1949/14. Lower right signed and dated. Signed, dated, titled and inscribed on the reverse. 70.5 x 80 cm (27.7 x 31.4 in). Made during Pechstein"s summer stay in Ückeritz on the Baltic peninsula of Usedom. The artist"s travelog contains a pencil sketch of the painting with a note from Sunday, August 14, 1949. [JS]. • The prominently staged rising sun is a symbol of Pechstein"s new start in Berlin after WW II. • The creation of the painting is documented by a pencil sketch and two entries in Pechstein"s travelog for August 1949: "[..] finally got lucky to paint my first sunrise down by the sea [..]" • Fascinating lighting in the expressionist, glowing palette characteristic of the "Brücke" era.
