Summer Day
1911
Painter, German, 1881 - 1955
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 75 x 100 cm (29 1/2 x 39 3/8 in.)
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Accession
2000.178.1
Artwork history & notes
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
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.
Inscriptions
lower right: Pechstein / 1911; center right, reverse: Sommermittag / Pechstein / 800
Wikidata ID
Q20191606