Artist:
Max Pechstein
Artwork:
Stilleben (Still Life)
Size:
81 x 71 cm
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Creation year:
1919
Marks:
Signed HM Pechstein and dated 1919 (lower right); titled Stilleben (on the reverse)
Category:
Paintings
Provenance:
Galerie Gurlitt, Berlin (until 1923); Dr. Karl Lilienfeld, Leipzig, Berlin & New York (acquired by 1932 and until the 1950s or 1960s); (possibly) Weintraub Gallery, New York; Emile E. Wolf, New York (acquired in the 1950s or 1960s); Thence by descent
Exhibition history:
Cambridge, Germanic Museum; East Hampton, Guild Hall & New London, Lyman Allyn Museum, Paintings by Six Modernists, 1932; Cambridge, Germanic Museum, Harvard University, on loan 1935-37; San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, on loan 1937-38; New York, Museum of Modern Art; Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts & Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, 'Primitivism' in 20th Century Art, Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern, 1984-85, illustrated in color in the catalogue