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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 8, 2023 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Evening Sale | 55 | $****** - ****** | Morgen am Garder See |
paintings
80.5 x 87.5 cm (31.69 x 34.45 in)
Oil on canvas
Signed (in ligature) and dated in lower right
Private collection Southern Germany (acquired in the 1970s). Ever since family-owned.
Münchener Neue Secession, Deutsche Kunstausstellung München, Glaspalast, Munich, May 30 to early October 1930, cat. no. 1820. 101. Grosse Frühjahrsausstellung, Kunstverein Hanover, February 26 - April 18, 1933, cat. no. 275.
Aya Soika, Max Pechstein. Catalogue raisonné of oil paintings, vol. 2 (1919-1954), Munich 2011, S. 403, cat. no. 1929/6 (fig.). Georg Jacob Wolf, Deutsche Kunstausstellung in München, in: Die Kunst für alle, vol. 45, issue 11, Aug. 1930, p. 338 (fig.). Leo Spik Auktionen, Berlin, 480th auction, December 6/7, 1972, p. 23, lot no. 139 (full-page illu., plate 45). "Spent the past summer up at the Baltic again, an oasis, didn"t hear nor read anything about the disgusting political machine that mauls across Germany polluting the youth." Hermann Max Pechstein, 1930, quoted from: Aya Soika, catalogue raisonné, vol. II, p. 80. "Black night. It"s 3 o"clock. I am fully awake. I step outside, I see it in the mist, walking down to the stream, it blurs in the silverish distance. I delve into this mysterious strangeness, row the boat upstream. I left the village. The mist billows even stronger, the sun"s coming up, soon, up at Garder Lake, I can see it rise. Rowing into its eastern tributary, I can see the eel creels" poles and the long black barges with my friends, the local fishermen checking their creels. Now I am about to start working, sketching them going about their business, later I will use colors to take this wonderful morning home with me. [.] Far beyond the lake, the Revekol towers in blue, some of the barges have set their sails, homeward to Garde. [.] The morning gold is fading and I return." Max Pechstein in Rowe, 1931, quoted from: ex. cat. Zwei Männer - ein Meer. Pechstein und Schmidt-Rottluff an der Ostsee, Pommersches Landesmuseum, Greifswald 2015, p. 113.
Morgen am Garder See . 1929. Oil on canvas. Signed (in ligature) and dated in lower right. 80.5 x 87.5 cm (31.6 x 34.4 in). • A last paradise: Pechstein spent the last carefree summers in Rowe/Pomerania between 1927 and 1933, before the dramatic political changes. • First exhibited and published in color in 1930. • In a special lighting mood and with fresh and cool colors, Pechstein shows the early morning hours on the lakeshore with the still bluish cold reflections of the rising sun .
