Live Auction 7833Impressionist/Modern Day Sale
Christie’s roundel
Lot 488 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION 

Hermann Max Pechstein (1881-1955)

Seenebel

Closed3 February 2010

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GBP 85,250

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Hermann Max Pechstein (1881-1955)
Seenebel
signed and indistinctly dated 'HMPechstein 1922' (lower right); signed and inscribed 'M.Pechstein Berlin W.62. Kürfürstenstr. 126 Seenebel' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
26 5/8 x 34 3/8 in. (67.5 x 87.3 cm.)
Painted in Leba in 1922

Helen Feiler, Frankfurt, by whom acquired from the artist in 1936.
Dr & Mrs Peter N. Witt, Knightdale, NC, by descent from the above; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 14 May 1980, lot 136.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

Dr Aya Soika will include this painting in her forthcoming Pechstein catalogue raisonné.