Sale: 539 / Modern Art Day Sale, June 10. 2023 in Munich Lot 391

 

391
Lyonel Feininger
Heimkehrende Fischer III, 1925.
Watercolor and ink pen drawing
Estimate:
€ 25,000 / $ 26,750
Sold:
€ 66,040 / $ 70,662

(incl. surcharge)
Heimkehrende Fischer III. 1925.
Watercolor and ink pen drawing.
Lower left signed, lower right dated "10 8 25" and titled in bottom center. On laid paper. 28 x 40.7 cm (11 x 16 in), size of sheet.
[AR].
• Seascape from the Bauhaus period, in which the unobtrusively applied color surrounds the motif like a mist.
• In addition to depictions of architecture, this motif became one of his most important ones.
• Sea, clouds, ships and figures are key elements of these works, which he brings together in varying constellations to create ever new pictorial compositions.
• Works by Lyonel Feininger can be found in numerous important international collections like the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Center Pompidou, Paris, the Städel Museum, Frankfurt a. Main, and the Sprengel Museum, Hanover
.

Achim Moeller, director of the Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York – Berlin, has confirmed the authenticity of the present work, which is registered in the archive of the Lyonel Feininger Project under the number 1849-05-02-23. A certificate is included.

PROVENANCE: Private collection.
Private collection Southern Germany (inherited from the above).




391
Lyonel Feininger
Heimkehrende Fischer III, 1925.
Watercolor and ink pen drawing
Estimate:
€ 25,000 / $ 26,750
Sold:
€ 66,040 / $ 70,662

(incl. surcharge)