Max Pechstein
The Circus
1919
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Max Pechstein
The Circus
1919
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, 55 x 39 in. (139.7 x 99.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Ralph Booth
Object Number
1947.318
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1947; Mary Booth; Ralph and Mary Booth, Grosse Pointe, Michigan
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "German Expressionism from the Collection of Ralph and Mary Booth", November 28, 1947-January 4, 1948.
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts (Ohio), "German Expressionism", February 9-March 9, 1961.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "A Circus Family: Picasso to Léger", February 22-May 24, 2009.
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts (Ohio), "German Expressionism", February 9-March 9, 1961.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "A Circus Family: Picasso to Léger", February 22-May 24, 2009.
"BMA News," December 1947, p. 1.
"BMA News," June 1957, p. 8.
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, "German Expressionism," published in conjunction with exhibition of the same name presented, February 9-March 9, 1961, no. 73, p. 16.
'Winter Highlights,' "BMA Today," Winter 2008-2009, pp. 2-3, 8, ill. (detail) p. 3 and p. 8.
"BMA Today," Spring 2009, ill., cover.
Aya Soika, "Max Pechstein: Das Werkverzeichnis Der Olgemalde: Band 1 n=1905 - 1918," Hirmer:2011, ill., 221.
Inscribed: Recto: LL in paint, "HM Pechstein;" below signature in pencil, "1918" Verso: Oil painting of man drinking from a coconut in a tropical scene. Pasted on the stretcher is a label from an unspecified "Kunsthaus, Munchen."
