Kurenkähne und Beiboot. 1911.
Pen and India ink and brush.
Lower right of image monogrammed and dated in the iert. On firm brownish board. 38 x 53 cm (14.9 x 20.8 in), the full sheet. [JS].

• Large-size ink pen drawing made during Pechstein's second stay in Nida in the summer of 1911.
• Nida on the Curonian Spit would become the "Brücke" artist's "painter's paradise" as of 1909.
• Coastal scene captured with an energetic line.

PROVENANCE: Collection Dr. Günter Krüger, Berlin (presumably until 2002: Bassenge, November 30, 2002).
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (acquired from the above, with the collector's stamp on the reverse, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2001-2017).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Bassenge, Berlin, 80th auction, November 30, 2002, lot 6559.
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 396, SHG no. 866 (with illu.).

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