As of Jun 18, 2025

Hermann Max Pechstein

Lot 78
Kleopatra und Dichter, 1917
Lithograph

13.0 x 12.6 in (33.0 x 32.0 cm)

Lot 78
Kleopatra und Dichter, 1917
Lithograph
13.0 x 12.6 in (33.0 x 32.0 cm)

Estimate:
€ 9,000
Auction: 24 days

Ketterer Kunst GmbH & Co KG

City: Munich
Auction: Jul 15, 2025 03:38 PM
Auction number: 594
Auction name: Online Sale

Lot Details
Transfer Lithograph , with watercolor. Signed, dated and inscribed "1." in the lower left. Trial proof with watercolor in addition to an edition of 130 copies. On bookprint paper . 33 x 32 cm. Sheet: 43,7 x 35 cm.
Final sheet in the portfolio "Heinrich Lautensack. Paraphrase zur Samländischen Ode". Published by Verlag Gurlitt, Berlin 1918. [MH].
-- Unique piece: colored trial print. - Final sheet of Heinrich Lautensack's Paraphrasen zur Samländischen Ode. - These illustrations count among the masterpieces of expressionist illustration art.
LITERATURE: Günter Krüger, Das druckgraphische Werk Max Pechsteins, Hamburg 1988, catalogue raisonné no. L 250.
Private collection, Switzerland (since 1991, Pasquale Iannetti Art Galleries, San Francisco)
In good condition, consistent with the age. Overall slightly wavy and slightly creased. The edges of the Sheet are slightly compressed in places. There is a crease mark in the upper left corner of the sheet, the upper left corner of the sheet is thinned. There are isolated brown spots and studio marks.
Lot Details
Transfer Lithograph , with watercolor. Signed, dated and inscribed "1." in the lower left. Trial proof with watercolor in addition to an edition of 130 copies. On bookprint paper . 33 x 32 cm. Sheet: 43,7 x 35 cm.
Final sheet in the portfolio "Heinrich Lautensack. Paraphrase zur Samländischen Ode". Published by Verlag Gurlitt, Berlin 1918. [MH].
-- Unique piece: colored trial print. - Final sheet of Heinrich Lautensack's Paraphrasen zur Samländischen Ode. - These illustrations count among the masterpieces of expressionist illustration art.
LITERATURE: Günter Krüger, Das druckgraphische Werk Max Pechsteins, Hamburg 1988, catalogue raisonné no. L 250.
Private collection, Switzerland (since 1991, Pasquale Iannetti Art Galleries, San Francisco)
In good condition, consistent with the age. Overall slightly wavy and slightly creased. The edges of the Sheet are slightly compressed in places. There is a crease mark in the upper left corner of the sheet, the upper left corner of the sheet is thinned. There are isolated brown spots and studio marks.

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