Lot 254 
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254
Hermann Max Pechstein
Verziehendes Gewitter, 1941.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 70,000 - 90,000
$ 77,000 - 99,000
Verziehendes Gewitter. 1941.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated lower right (partly in ligature, reinforced in black). Signed, titled and inscribed with the artist's address on the reverse of the canvas. 45 x 66 cm (17.7 x 25.9 in). [CH].
• To date, only two other paintings by the artist from this year have been documented, one of which is lost.
• Pechstein captures a brief moment, a storm in the distance with lightning, towering dark clouds, and a short rainbow.
• In the center of the picture, above the sophisticated cloud reflection, delicate sunshine announces the storm's end.
• The scene presumably depicts the mill stream with a view of vast meadows and a river at Lake Sarbsko (today Jezioro Sarbsko) near Leba in West Pomerania.
• In 2024, the artist was honored with a comprehensive retrospective at the Museum Wiesbaden.
Accompanied by a certificate from Prof. Dr. Aya Soika, Berlin, dated September 29, 2015. The painting is registered in the archive of the Max Pechstein copyright community, Hamburg, under the number 1941/3.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Berlin.
Private collection, Germany (through inheritance from the above in 1994).
Private collection, Northern Germany (acquired from the above in 2015).
Max Pechstein in a letter to his son Frank, 1941, quoted in: Aya Soika, Max Pechstein. Das Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde, vol. 2 (1919-1954), p. 30.
Called up: December 7, 2024 - ca. 15.32 h +/- 20 min.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated lower right (partly in ligature, reinforced in black). Signed, titled and inscribed with the artist's address on the reverse of the canvas. 45 x 66 cm (17.7 x 25.9 in). [CH].
• To date, only two other paintings by the artist from this year have been documented, one of which is lost.
• Pechstein captures a brief moment, a storm in the distance with lightning, towering dark clouds, and a short rainbow.
• In the center of the picture, above the sophisticated cloud reflection, delicate sunshine announces the storm's end.
• The scene presumably depicts the mill stream with a view of vast meadows and a river at Lake Sarbsko (today Jezioro Sarbsko) near Leba in West Pomerania.
• In 2024, the artist was honored with a comprehensive retrospective at the Museum Wiesbaden.
Accompanied by a certificate from Prof. Dr. Aya Soika, Berlin, dated September 29, 2015. The painting is registered in the archive of the Max Pechstein copyright community, Hamburg, under the number 1941/3.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Berlin.
Private collection, Germany (through inheritance from the above in 1994).
Private collection, Northern Germany (acquired from the above in 2015).
Max Pechstein in a letter to his son Frank, 1941, quoted in: Aya Soika, Max Pechstein. Das Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde, vol. 2 (1919-1954), p. 30.
Called up: December 7, 2024 - ca. 15.32 h +/- 20 min.
254
Hermann Max Pechstein
Verziehendes Gewitter, 1941.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 70,000 - 90,000
$ 77,000 - 99,000
Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Hermann Max Pechstein "Verziehendes Gewitter"
This lot can be purchased subject to differential or regular taxation, artist‘s resale right compensation is due.
Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 800,000 €: herefrom 32 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 27 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 800,000 €: herefrom 27 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 21% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 19 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium. As an exception, the reduced VAT of 7 % is added for printed books.
We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.
Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
4 % of hammer price from 400.00 euros up to 50,000 euros,
another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.
The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.
Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 800,000 €: herefrom 32 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 27 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 800,000 €: herefrom 27 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 21% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 19 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium. As an exception, the reduced VAT of 7 % is added for printed books.
We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.
Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
4 % of hammer price from 400.00 euros up to 50,000 euros,
another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.
The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.