The Artist's Mother-in-Law

Prints and Drawings

1910

Max Pechstein
German, 1881-1955

When this drawing was acquired in 1985, the sitter had been identified as Pechstein’s first wife, Lotte. In 1988, the museum was contacted by his son, Max Pechstein, who identified the subject not as Lotte, but as Lotte’s mother, Frau Kaprolat.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Max Pechstein
Title: The Artist's Mother-in-Law
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1910
Medium: Gouache on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right: "HMP 1910"
Dimensions: 33 × 25 cm (13 × 9 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Alan Press and Olivia Shaler Swan Fund
Reference Number: 1985.395

Alice Adam, “New Acquisitions/German Master Prints and Drawings,” 1985, cat. 16.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Twentieth Century Collection Reinstalled,” June 7, 1991-February 28, 1992.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present,” September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.

Sold, Christie’s, New York, February 22, 1985, lot 43. Sold by Alice Adam, Ltd., to the Art Institute, 1985.

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