Der Tanz (Tanzende und Badende am Waldteich). 1912.
Lithograph, hand-colored.
Krüger L 149. Signed, dated and numbered. From an edition of 100 copies. On firm wove paper. 42.7 x 32.5 cm (16.8 x 12.7 in). Sheet: 53,3 x 39,7 cm (21 x 15,7 in).
One of three sheets Pechstein made for the VII. annual "Brücke" portfolio of 1912.
Verso with a watercolor drawing showing a naked mother with a baby, monogrammed and dated "1919". [JS].
• From the important “Brücke“ period
• From the Brücke portfolio
• Hand-colored
• With a watercolor drawing on rear
• Other copies are at, among others, the Brücke Museum, Berlin, the Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, the Kunsthalle Hamburg and the Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung, Munich.

We are grateful to Mr Alexander Pechstein, Max Pechstein-Urheberrechtsgemeinschaft, for his oral confirmation of this work's authenticity.