Lot 154 | Max Peiffer Watenphul | Pulquería in Mexico

PEIFFER WATENPHUL, MAX
1896 Weferlingen - 1976 Rome

Title: Pulquería in Mexico.
Date: 1926.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 95 x 82cm.
Notation: Monogrammed and inscribed upper left: M.P.W. 26 Mexico.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame. Not examined out of the frame.

We are grateful to the Peiffer Watenphul Archive, Munich, for their kind support.

Provenance:
- Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Wichtrach/Bern (label)
- Kate Werble Gallery, New York
- Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from previous owner in 2015)

Exhibitions:
- Städtisches Museum Schloß Morsbroich, Leverkusen 1958
- Städtisches Museum Simeonstift, Trier 1958
- Kunsthalle Darmstadt, 1972

Literature:
- Watenphul Pasqualucci, Grace/Pasqualucci, Alessandra: Max Peiffer Watenphul - Catalogue raisonné, vol. 1, Paintings - Watercolours, Cologne 1989, cat. rais. no. G82, ill.
- Exhibition catalogue Peiffer Watenphul, Municipal Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen 1958, cat. no. 10
- Exhibition catalogue Max Peiffer Watenphul, Städtisches Museum Simeonstift, Trier 1958, cat. no. 10
- Exhibition catalogue Max Peiffer Watenphul. Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, 1972, cat. no. 10, p. 36, ill. (here titled: Mexican Street Scene)
- Bilzer, B.: Peiffer Watenphul, Göttingen 1974, p. 13, ill. p. 37
- Hocke, G.R.: Max Peiffer Watenphul. Personality, Life, Work, Stuttgart 1976, p. 15, ill.