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Max Pechstein
Yali and his white wife1924

Not on view
Drypoint or lithograph print with gestural black lines: a large, nude adult figure bends over a small infant lying on the ground, with sketchy figures in the distance
Charcoal or lithograph drawing of five nude and partially clothed figures in dynamic poses, surrounded by loosely sketched foliage above, rendered with energetic, gestural mark-making in black and white.
Intaglio print with expressive cross-hatching; a stylized standing nude figure rendered in spare outline rises above three heavily worked, crouching figures surrounding a recumbent nude in the foreground; artist's signature at lower right.
Etching or lithograph, two standing figures facing each other outdoors: a nude woman at left rendered in outline, and a darkly shaded figure at right wearing a fringed skirt and necklace, both with arms extended toward one another; palm fronds and birds sketched in background, with energetic hatched linework throughout.
Drypoint or lithograph in black and white; a nude figure stands beside tall trees with large tropical foliage, rendered in expressive gestural lines; mountains and birds sketched loosely in the background.
Drypoint or pencil print of a seated nude figure among wildflowers, one hand raised, with a flock of birds in flight across the upper portion of the composition; loose, expressive line work.
Drypoint print with dense hatching; a nude figure curled on the ground in the foreground, with a coastal landscape behind and a large stylized face in profile emerging from jagged, radiating lines in the stormy sky above.
Pencil or charcoal drawing of a seated female figure with white hair holding an infant, flanked by two small nude children; dark hatched background with birds in flight above, rendered in an Expressionist style with angular lines.
Artist or Maker
Max Pechstein
Germany, 1881-1955
Title
Yali and his white wife
Place Made
Germany, Berlin
Date Made
1924
Medium
Printed material and eight etchings with drypoint on handmade paper
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds
Accession Number
83.1.745a-h
Classification
Books
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography

  • Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.

  • Krüger, Günter. Das Druckgraphische werk Max Pechsteins. Tökendorf: R.C. Pechstein, 1988.