Hermann Max Pechstein - Vorstadt - image-1

Lot 492 D

Hermann Max Pechstein - Vorstadt

Auction 1023 - overview Cologne
26.11.2013, 18:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 5.000 € - 6.000 €

Hermann Max Pechstein

Vorstadt
Circa 1916

Pen and ink drawing on grey machine-made laid paper 37 x 47.2 cm Monogrammed 'HMP' (joined) in pencil in the depiction lower right. - Minor age-related marginal defects and along the edges slightly browned.

Possibly a motif from Flanders. Pechstein was sent to the Western front in May 1916 where he did his military service as a cartographer.

Certificate

This work is registered in the archive of the Max Pechstein Urheberrechtsgemeinschaft, Dobersdorf. We would like to thank Alexander Pechstein for confirmatory information.

Provenance

Formerly private collection, Palatinate, in family possession since