Oil on canvas. Monogrammed and dated in the upper right. With the contours of a nude in blue on the reverse. 101 x 80.5 cm.
- Created immediately after World War I, during a particularly productive phase in Hermann Max Pechstein’s creative life. - Nida: a place that served as a central source of inspiration for the artist for many years. - The forest landscape is transformed into a condensed pictorial space. - Pechstein depicts nature as an elemental, almost sublime force. - Part of the same private collection for over 30 years.
Accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity from Max K. Pechstein, Hamburg, May 1987 (copy).
LITERATURE: Aya Soika, Max Pechstein. Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings, vol. 2: 1919-1954, Munich 2011, CR no. 1919/23 (illustrated) -- Sotheby’s, New York, May 14, 1980, lot 232 (illustrated) Sotheby's, New York, May 21, 1982, lot 340 (illustrated) Sotheby's, London, Auction 7440, Dec. 8-9, 1997, lot 67 (illustrated).

Blickpunkte. Deutsche Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert, Galerie Neher, Essen, September 20-November 28, 1987 (illustrated in color on p. 123)

Galerie Gurlitt, Berlin (until 1923: on consignment). Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Galleries, Leipzig/Berlin/New York (until 1957/58). Peter Josten, New York (1957/58, acquired from the above) Kleemann Galleries, New York (ca. 1960; with a label on the reverse of the stretcher). Carl Laemmle, Jr., Beverly Hills (since the 1960s). Jeffrey Horvitz, Hallandall, Florida. Galerie Neher, Essen (1987). Private collection, Switzerland (since 1987, acquired from the previous owner) In possession of the family ever since

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