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Lot 125000957
Lot 125000957 
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125000957
Lyonel Feininger
Marine nach Holzschnitt, 1933.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 250,000 - 350,000
$ 292,500 - 409,500
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Marine nach Holzschnitt. 1933.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the upper left. Inscribed "Lyonel Feininger 1933" on the reverse of the stretcher. 36.5 x 39.5 cm (14.3 x 15.5 in).
• Lyonel Feininger is the most important marine painter of the 20th century
• Reference to a woodcut motif on a letter to Galka Scheyer.
• Concentrated form, colors in an extremely strong expressiveness.
Achim Moeller, Director of the Lyonel Feininger Project, New York–Berlin, has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which is registered in the Lyonel Feininger Project archive under the number . The painting is listed in Lyonel Feininger: The Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings by Achim Moeller under the number . The work is accompanied by a certificate.
PROVENANCE: Estate of the artist, New York.
Theodore Lux (T. Lux) Feininger, Cambridge, MA (inherited).
Estate of T. Lux Feininger, Cambridge, MA (inherited).
EXHIBITION: Lyonel Feininger. Marlborough - Gerson Gallery Inc., New York, June 1-6, 1969, cat. no. 42 with ill. p. 60 (with a label on the stretcher).
Lyonel Feininger: Retrospective in Japan Yokosuka, Yokosuka Museum of Art, August 2 - October 5, 2008 / Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Higashisakura, October 17 - December 23, 2008 / Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, January 10 - March 1, 2009. Cat. no. 115 (with color ill.).
LITERATURE: Achim Moeller, “Marine ( nach Holzschnitt) / Marine ( after Woodblock) ), 1933
(Moeller 371 ).” (in: Lyonel Feininger: The Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, http://feiningerproject.org/ (accessed on October 8, 2025)
Hans Hess, Lyonel Feininger. Mit einem Œuvre-Katalog von Julia Feininger, Stuttgart 1959, CR no. 355 (illustrated in b/w) (with differing dimensions 48.8 x 50.8 cm).
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Deuchler, Florens. Lyonel Feininger. Sein Weg zum Bauhaus-Meister. Leipzig 1996, p. 165.
Fromm, Andrea (ed.) Feininger und das Bauhaus. Weimar, Dessau, New York. Hamburg, 2009, p. 186.
Kunsthalle Nürnberg and Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft (eds.), Lyonel Feininger. Städte und Küsten: Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik. Marburg 1992, p. 266 (here titled “Marine”).
Muir, Laura. Lyonel Feininger: Photographs 1928–1939, Ostfildern 2011, p. 49.
Hans Schulz-Vanselow, Lyonel Feininger und Pommern. Kiel 1999, p. 234.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the upper left. Inscribed "Lyonel Feininger 1933" on the reverse of the stretcher. 36.5 x 39.5 cm (14.3 x 15.5 in).
• Lyonel Feininger is the most important marine painter of the 20th century
• Reference to a woodcut motif on a letter to Galka Scheyer.
• Concentrated form, colors in an extremely strong expressiveness.
Achim Moeller, Director of the Lyonel Feininger Project, New York–Berlin, has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which is registered in the Lyonel Feininger Project archive under the number . The painting is listed in Lyonel Feininger: The Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings by Achim Moeller under the number . The work is accompanied by a certificate.
PROVENANCE: Estate of the artist, New York.
Theodore Lux (T. Lux) Feininger, Cambridge, MA (inherited).
Estate of T. Lux Feininger, Cambridge, MA (inherited).
EXHIBITION: Lyonel Feininger. Marlborough - Gerson Gallery Inc., New York, June 1-6, 1969, cat. no. 42 with ill. p. 60 (with a label on the stretcher).
Lyonel Feininger: Retrospective in Japan Yokosuka, Yokosuka Museum of Art, August 2 - October 5, 2008 / Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Higashisakura, October 17 - December 23, 2008 / Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, January 10 - March 1, 2009. Cat. no. 115 (with color ill.).
LITERATURE: Achim Moeller, “Marine ( nach Holzschnitt) / Marine ( after Woodblock) ), 1933
(Moeller 371 ).” (in: Lyonel Feininger: The Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, http://feiningerproject.org/ (accessed on October 8, 2025)
Hans Hess, Lyonel Feininger. Mit einem Œuvre-Katalog von Julia Feininger, Stuttgart 1959, CR no. 355 (illustrated in b/w) (with differing dimensions 48.8 x 50.8 cm).
- -
Deuchler, Florens. Lyonel Feininger. Sein Weg zum Bauhaus-Meister. Leipzig 1996, p. 165.
Fromm, Andrea (ed.) Feininger und das Bauhaus. Weimar, Dessau, New York. Hamburg, 2009, p. 186.
Kunsthalle Nürnberg and Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft (eds.), Lyonel Feininger. Städte und Küsten: Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik. Marburg 1992, p. 266 (here titled “Marine”).
Muir, Laura. Lyonel Feininger: Photographs 1928–1939, Ostfildern 2011, p. 49.
Hans Schulz-Vanselow, Lyonel Feininger und Pommern. Kiel 1999, p. 234.
125000957
Lyonel Feininger
Marine nach Holzschnitt, 1933.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 250,000 - 350,000
$ 292,500 - 409,500
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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