Summer Day, 1911

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 75 x 100 cm (29 1/2 x 39 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Arnold and Joan Saltzman

Accession Number

2000.178.1

Artists / Makers

Max Pechstein (painter) German, 1881 - 1955

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Inscription

lower right: Pechstein / 1911; center right, reverse: Sommermittag / Pechstein / 800

Provenance

Probably (Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, Munich).[1] Dr. Walter Minnich [1864-1940], Montreaux; gift 1937 to the Kunstmuseum, Lucerne; (sale, Klipstein & Kornfeld, Bern, 25-26 May 1962, no. 931); London art market; private collection, Rome; [2] (Galerie Anne Abels, Cologne); sold c. 1970 to Arnold A. [1916-2014] and Joan R. [1919-2019] Saltzman, Sands Point, New York;[3] gift (partial and promised) 2000 to NGA; gift completed 2020.

[1] A seal of the Galerie Thannhauser is recorded as having been on the back of the painting, on the stretcher, when it was sold in 1962. However this seal is no longer evident.

[2] Post 1962 sale provenance according to Aya Soika, Max Pechstein : das Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde, Munich, 2011, p. 326, repro.

[3] The Saltzmans lent the painting to the 1970 exhibition in Ithaca and Rochester.

Associated Names

Galerie Aenne Abels
Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, Moderne
Galerie Kornfeld
Kunstmuseum Luzern
Minnich, Walter
Saltzman, Arnold, Mr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

1923: H. M. Pechstein, Kunsthaus, Zurich, 1923, no. 13.

1959: Der junge Pechstein, Nationalgalerie Berlin-Charlottenberg, 1959, no. 112, repro.

1970: Brücke, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, 1970, no. 32, repro.

1972: German Expressionist Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, Sculpture, Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York, no. 58, repro.

1982: The Long Island Collections: A Century of Art: 1880-1980, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY, 1982, repro. p. 36.

2001: German Expressionist Paintings from the Saltzman Family Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2001-2002, brochure, fig. 4.

Bibliography

2011: Soika, Aya. Max Pechstein : das Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde. Munich, 2011: 326, repro.