Wolken IV. 1934.
Watercolor and India ink.
Lower left signed and titled, lower right dated. On Ingres laid paper (with watermark). 31 x 47 cm (12.2 x 18.5 in), size of sheet.
[AR].
• Perfect interplay of graphic lines and pointed color accents.
• Abstract clouds over a calm sea are among Feininger's central motifs.
• He spent the spring and summer of 1934 in Mrzezyno on the Baltic Sea, shortly after the Bauhaus closed and the National Socialists came to power.
• Exhibited in Berlin and the USA during the artist's lifetime.
• Privately owned for 43 years.

Achim Moeller, director of the Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York – Berlin, has confirmed this work's authenticity, it is registered in the archive of the Lyonel Feininger Project under the number 1886-10-30-23. Accompanied by the certificate.

PROVENANCE: Julia Feininger, New York.
Private collection.
Galleria Castelnuovo, Ascona.
Private collection Soutern Germany (acquired from the above in 1980).

EXHIBITION: Lyonel Feininger - Sonderausstellung: Neue Aquarelle, Kohlezeichnungen und Federzeichnungen, Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Berlin, Febr.-March 1935, no. 53
2nd Feininger Exhibition 1937: 35 New Paintings, 130 Drawings and Prints by Lyonel Feininger, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, June 27 - August 7, 1937 (no. 39 on trasnport list).

LITERATURE: Hans Schulz-Vanselow, Lyonel Feininger und Pommern, Kiel 1999, p. 252.

"I have just come up from the beach, where I was drawing [..] the clouds above the water [..], a whole continent of storm clouds [..]. The water lay completely still [..]. I feel so many images emerging in me, I have such a longing for the realization of these visions [..]."
Lyonel Feininger, Sept. 9, 1922, in a letter to Julia Feininger. Quoted from: Werner Timm, Feininger an der Ostseeküste, in: Roland März (ed.), Lyonel Feininger. Von Gelmeroda nach Manhattan, Berlin 1998, p. 305.