By the Water (Beach) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1998.144
People: Max Pechstein, German (Eckersbach, near Zwickau, Germany 1881 - 1955 West Berlin, Germany)
Title: By the Water (Beach)
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Am Wasser (Strand)
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1906-07
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/197758

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Woodcut printed in black and yellow inks on cream wove paper

Technique

Woodcut

Dimensions

block: 15.8 x 21.2 cm (6 1/4 x 8 3/8 in.)
sheet: 30.6 x 30.9 cm (12 1/16 x 12 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: monogram in block at l.l.: MP

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, auction 59, no. 6943 (repr.), 1991.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: Fechter H 20 II (w/monogram); Krüger H 351 I

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Pearl K. and Daniel Bell
Accession Year: 1998
Object Number: 1998.144
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: border outside image printed with yellow ink

Exhibition History

A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions from the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Central and Northern Art and Design from 1880 to the Present, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 04/19/2000 - 07/09/2000

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1998.144: By the Water (Beach)