About the Artwork
Under the Trees
1911
Max Pechstein
1881-1955
German
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 29 × 39 inches (73.7 × 99.1 cm) Framed: 36 11/16 × 46 5/8 × 3 3/8 inches (93.2 × 118.4 × 8.6 cm)
Paintings
European Modern Art to 1970
City of Detroit Purchase
21.206
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Markings
Signed and dated, lower left: Pechstein 1911
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Provenance
1921, possibly (Gurlitt). 1921, possibly sold through (Lucerne Fine Art Co.). 1921-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Berlin 1913: Kunstsalon Gurlitt. Exh. cat., Kunstsalon Gurlitt. Berlin, 1913, (possibly no. 20). [as In den Dunen]
Munchen 1913: Neue Kunst, 2. Exh. cat., Galerie Hans Goltz. Munchen, 1913, no. 121 (ill.). [as Akte im Freien]
Hamlyn, P. Larousse Encyclopedia of Modern Art. London, p. 377 (pl. 1042).
Selz, P. German Expressionist Painting. Berkeley, 1958, p. 307.
Uhr, Horst. Masterpieces of German Expressionism at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1982, p. 190 (ill.).
Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art. Tokyo, 1989, no. 83 (ill.).
Brucke: The Birth of Expressioism in Dresden and Berlin, 1905-1913. Exh. cat., Neue Galerie. New York, 2009, p. 144, no. 18.
Rishel, Joseph J., ed. Gauguin, Cezanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, 2012, pp. 226-227 (ill.).
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Max Pechstein, Under the Trees, 1911, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 21.206.
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