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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 7, 2025 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Day Sale | 192 | $****** - ****** | Große Mühlengraben-Brücke (Leba) |
Works on Paper
48 x 58 cm (18.9 x 22.83 in)
Gouache, watercolor, color pen and chalks
Signed (partly in ligature) and dated in the lower right
Private collection, Israel. Galerie Michael Hasenclever, Munich. Deutsche Bank Collection (acquired from the above in 1991). Private collection, South Germany (acquired from the above).
Auf Papier. Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus der Deutschen Bank, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, March 3-April 30, 1995; Berlinische Galerie, Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Photographie und Architektur, Berlin, May 18-July 2, 1995; Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, August 10-September 24, 1995, p. 242, cat. no. 141 (illustrated on p. 243).
Ariane Grigoteit, Landschaften eines Jahrhunderts. From the Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt am Main 1999, p. 161 (illustrated). Called up: June 7, 2025 - ca. 16.02 h +/- 20 min.
Hermann Max Pechstein
Große Mühlengraben-Brücke (Leba)
1921.
Gouache, watercolor, color pen and chalks.
Signed (partly in ligature) and dated in the lower right. 48 x 58 cm (18.8 x 22.8 in), the full sheet. [CH].
In 1921, the year this painting was created, Pechstein discovered Leba on the Baltic Sea as his new artistic retreat. The town became his second home until 1945.
• During this critical year, the artist met his future wife, Marta Möller, in Leba.
• In this drawing, Pechstein combines the idyllic scenery with bold color accents, a dramatic sense of depth, and a narrative layer to create a richly detailed composition.
• In the year it was created, and the following year, the artist also used this motif in his paintings, among them "Sonnenuntergang" (Sunset, Nationalgalerie, Berlin) and "Brücke in Leba" (Narodni Galerie, Prague)
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