Hermann Max Pechstein (1881-1955)

Mann und Weib

细节

Hermann Max Pechstein (1881-1955)
Mann und Weib
lithograph printed in black, grey, pale green, blue and red, 1909, on heavy oatmeal wove paper, a good impression of this rare print, signed, dated, titled 'Mann und Weib 40-' in pencil and inscribed 'Berlin Wilmersdorf Durlacherstr. 14' (the artist's studio), numbered 4, with margins, a deckle edge at the left, pale mount-staining, repaired areas of paper loss at the margin corners, a small backed tear at the right sheet edge, lesser defects
L. 20.1/8 x 16.1/8in. (510 x 410mm.), S. 23 x 17in. (590 x 440mm.)

出版

G. Krger, das Druckgraphische Werk Max Pechsteins, Hamburg, 1988, no. L80

拍品专文

It is generally believed that Pechstein took up lithography in 1908, the year he began etching, and from the outset he was careful to number each impression. The amount produced was so small that it seems inapropriate to talk of an edition, since, generally speaking, four or five only of each were printed. Anthony Griffiths and Francis Carey in researching The Print in Germany 1880-1933 record that 7 is the highest number they have seen on any of his lithographs. Confusingly, he was far less scrupulous with his other prints. Numbers are rarely found on either his etchings or woodcuts.