As of Nov 13, 2024

Hermann Max Pechstein

Lot 254
Verziehendes Gewitter, 1941
Oil on canvas

17.7 x 26.0 in (45.0 x 66.0 cm)

Lot 254
Verziehendes Gewitter, 1941
Oil on canvas
17.7 x 26.0 in (45.0 x 66.0 cm)

Estimate:
€ 70,000 - 90,000
Auction: 15 days

Ketterer Kunst GmbH & Co KG

City: Munich
Auction: Dec 07, 2024
Auction number: 563
Auction name: Modern Art Day Sale

Lot Details
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right (partly in ligature, reinforced in black). Signed, titled and inscribed with the artist's address on the reverse of the canvas. 45 x 66 cm. . [CH].

• To date, only two other paintings by the artist from this year have been documented, one of which is lost.
• Pechstein captures a brief moment, a storm in the distance with lightning, towering dark clouds, and a short rainbow.
• In the center of the picture, above the sophisticated cloud reflection, delicate sunshine announces the storm's end.
• The scene presumably depicts the mill stream with a view of vast meadows and a river at Lake Sarbsko (today Jezioro Sarbsko) near Leba in West Pomerania.
• In 2024, the artist was honored with a comprehensive retrospective at the Museum Wiesbaden.
Accompanied by a certificate from Prof. Dr. Aya Soika, Berlin, dated September 29, 2015. The painting is registered in the archive of the Max Pechstein copyright community, Hamburg, under the number 1941/3.
Private collection, Berlin. Private collection, Germany (through inheritance from the above in 1994). Private collection, Northern Germany (acquired from the above in 2015)
Atmospheric landscape in a beautiful overall impression. In the corners of the image, at the upper edge of the image and in the left and especially in the right edge area with some small retouchings, there partly somewhat larger. The condition report was compiled in daylight with the help of an ultraviolet light and to the best of our knowledge and belief.
Lot Details
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right (partly in ligature, reinforced in black). Signed, titled and inscribed with the artist's address on the reverse of the canvas. 45 x 66 cm. . [CH].

• To date, only two other paintings by the artist from this year have been documented, one of which is lost.
• Pechstein captures a brief moment, a storm in the distance with lightning, towering dark clouds, and a short rainbow.
• In the center of the picture, above the sophisticated cloud reflection, delicate sunshine announces the storm's end.
• The scene presumably depicts the mill stream with a view of vast meadows and a river at Lake Sarbsko (today Jezioro Sarbsko) near Leba in West Pomerania.
• In 2024, the artist was honored with a comprehensive retrospective at the Museum Wiesbaden.
Accompanied by a certificate from Prof. Dr. Aya Soika, Berlin, dated September 29, 2015. The painting is registered in the archive of the Max Pechstein copyright community, Hamburg, under the number 1941/3.
Private collection, Berlin. Private collection, Germany (through inheritance from the above in 1994). Private collection, Northern Germany (acquired from the above in 2015)
Atmospheric landscape in a beautiful overall impression. In the corners of the image, at the upper edge of the image and in the left and especially in the right edge area with some small retouchings, there partly somewhat larger. The condition report was compiled in daylight with the help of an ultraviolet light and to the best of our knowledge and belief.

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