Three Plates from: Russiches Ballet (K. R71-73)

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Hermann Max Pechstein
Three Plates from: Russiches Ballet (K. R71-73)
three etchings with aquatint, 1912, plates I and II on soft white wove paper, plate III on stiff cream wove paper, plates I and II signed and dated in pencil Pechstein 12, plate III signed in pencil M. Pechstein, all three plates numbered I, all three rich and strong impressions, probably early proofs, the full sheets, plate I and II with deckle edges above and below, plate three with some inky finger marks in the sheet corners, all with some very minor foxmarks in the margins, generally in very good condition
P. 298 x 250 mm., S. 520 x 325 mm.
P. 247 x 296 mm., S. 323 x 520 mm.
P. 245 x 297 mm., S. 320 x 445 mm. (3)

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by Hermann Münchhausen, Ratzeburg and Berlin.
Then by descent to the present owners.

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Lot Essay

Plate I from the series of Russisches Ballet was published in the Brücke Mappe VII in 1912 in an edition of approximately one hundred impression. Fritz Gurlitt then published a second edition of this plate, which consisted of fifty impressions on laid paper and twenty on Japan. The other plates from the series were only printed in very small numbers and never published.
The inscription with the number I on the present impressions, as well as the papers used, implies that these are early, possibly the first proofs, printed before the edition of plate I.

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