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Lot Essay
Dr Aya Soika has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which is sold with her report issued in consultation with the Pechstein Estate, dated 13 May 2013.
Attracted by the dynamic life of the big city Pechstein was the first of the Brücke artists to move to Berlin in 1908. The bright palette of the present work and the Brücke style in general, naturally prompt comparison with the Fauves in Paris. Pechstein certainly met Kees van Dongen in Paris in 1907 but did not mix with the wider Matisse school, which included fellow Germans, Purrmann, Moll and Grossmann. However, the Matisse exhibition organised in Berlin by Paul Cassirer in January 1909, shortly after Pechstein arrived, would have given the artist time to study the movement more closely.
Heavily painted with bold sweeps of thick colour, Pechstein creates a panorama of form and strong colour that in its density conveys a powerful sense of the solidity and materiality of the still life. It is these features of the work that go beyond anything painted by the Fauves and which distinguish this vibrant still-life as an expressionistic work.
Attracted by the dynamic life of the big city Pechstein was the first of the Brücke artists to move to Berlin in 1908. The bright palette of the present work and the Brücke style in general, naturally prompt comparison with the Fauves in Paris. Pechstein certainly met Kees van Dongen in Paris in 1907 but did not mix with the wider Matisse school, which included fellow Germans, Purrmann, Moll and Grossmann. However, the Matisse exhibition organised in Berlin by Paul Cassirer in January 1909, shortly after Pechstein arrived, would have given the artist time to study the movement more closely.
Heavily painted with bold sweeps of thick colour, Pechstein creates a panorama of form and strong colour that in its density conveys a powerful sense of the solidity and materiality of the still life. It is these features of the work that go beyond anything painted by the Fauves and which distinguish this vibrant still-life as an expressionistic work.