Four men in a rowing boat

Details

Hermann Max Pechstein (1881-1955)
Four men in a rowing boat
signed with initials and dated 'HMP 1920' (lower right)
charcoal, ink and ink wash on paper
26.5 x 37 cm.
Executed in 1920

Provenance

Piccadilly Gallery, London.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 20 October 1999, lot 123.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 5 February 2004, lot 378.
Acquired at the above by the Triton Collection Foundation.

Literature

S. van Heugten, Avant-gardes, 1870 to the Present, the Collection of the Triton Foundation, Brussels 2012, p. 557 (illustrated p. 184).

Special Notice

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Lot Essay

The privately owned Triton Collection Foundation holds one of the most important collections of the 19th and 20th Century avant-garde art in private hands worldwide. It comprises a few hundred works from three centuries of global art from Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Vincent Van Gogh to Yves Klein, Gerhard Richter, Ellsworth Kelly, Marina Abramovich, and Ai Weiwei.

Alexander Pechstein has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

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