Oil on canvas. Signed in lower right. 60 x 73 cm.
The work is documented in the Hans Purrmann Archive under the numbers 33 and 787. [AR].
- Alongside landscapes and portraits, still lifes were among Hans Purrmann's preferred genres. - Powerful work with a composition dominated by the ripe splendor of the fruit. - In 1935, around the time the work was made, the artist left Germany and took over the administration of the German Artists' Foundation Villa Romana in Florence. - His still lifes can be found in important museum collections like the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.
LITERATURE: Christian Lenz, Felix Billeter, Hans Purrmann. Die Gemälde II 1935-1966. Catalogue raisonné, Munich 2004, no. 1936/06 (illu. in color).

Hans Purrmann zum 100. Geburtstag, Mittelrheinisches Landesmuseum, Mainz 1980, cat. no. 48

Monastery Raitenhaslach, Bavaria (stored by Dr. Robert Purrmann, the artist's son, for safekeeping during the war). Central Collecting Point, Munich (December 11, 1945 - April 28, 1948, no. 16455). Dr. Robert Purrmann (reobtained from the above on April 28, 1948). Dr. Hugo Max Collection (inscribed on the reverse). Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia

Good overall impression. All in all with spots of craquelure and isolated small color breakages. Two retouched spots in the brown of the table (above and below the pineapple) as well as with very small retouched spots in the pineapple. Some tiny brown spots on the paint. Traces of gray paint along the edges of the painting, due to a gray border/border lamination of gray-painted canvas, probably inherent to the work. The condition report was compiled in daylight with the help of an ultraviolet light and to the best of knowledge.