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On chamois imitation Japan paper. Print outside the edition. Signed and dated lower right.
Previous catalogue raisonné: Fechter H 136.
Printed in 14 copies for the portfolio “Exotic Heads” by Fritz Gurlitt, Berlin 1919, as well as in 51 uncounted signed handprints.
Further copies are in the following collections: Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge.
In 1917, Max Pechstein was transferred from the front to Berlin as a picture observer for the Luftwaffe. This gave him plenty of time to work in his studio. It was to be one of his most productive years as an artist. In particular, he explored the experiences of his war-interrupted South Sea trip to the Palau Islands in 1914/15 in numerous works of all techniques, something that had previously been impossible due to military service. Practically all of Pechstein’s South Sea works that come to mind when the term “Palau” is mentioned were created in 1917, including this head with special decoration in the woodcut series “Exotic Heads.”
