Lot 240
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Lyonel Feininger
Under Shortened Sail, 1937.
Watercolor and India ink drawing
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 45,200 Sold:
€ 68,750 / $ 77,687 (incl. surcharge)
Under Shortened Sail. 1937.
Watercolor and India ink drawing.
Lower left signed, lower right dated and titled in bottom center. On laid paper. 31 x 48 cm (12.2 x 18.8 in), size of sheet.
• Made the year that 387 works by Feininger were removed from German museums and the artist's return to the USA.
• The watercolor and its depiction of the sea's vastness contrary to the small boat sailing under German and American flag is very symbolic of the new situation in his life.
• Feininger's crystalline seascapes are particularly sought-after on the international auction market.
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 237-09-22-08.
PROVENANCE: Arthur U. Hooper, Baltimore.
Gimpel Weitzenhoffer, New York (with label on frame).
Collection Helen W. Benjamin, New York.
Collection Mary B. Arnstein, USA.
Private collection Germany.
EXHIBITION: Meister der klassischen Moderne, Haus Beda, Bitburg, September 29 - October 27, 2013, no. 9.
Lyonel Feininger. Ein Meister am Bauhaus, Düsseldorf 2010 (ex. cat. with illu.).
Watercolor and India ink drawing.
Lower left signed, lower right dated and titled in bottom center. On laid paper. 31 x 48 cm (12.2 x 18.8 in), size of sheet.
• Made the year that 387 works by Feininger were removed from German museums and the artist's return to the USA.
• The watercolor and its depiction of the sea's vastness contrary to the small boat sailing under German and American flag is very symbolic of the new situation in his life.
• Feininger's crystalline seascapes are particularly sought-after on the international auction market.
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 237-09-22-08.
PROVENANCE: Arthur U. Hooper, Baltimore.
Gimpel Weitzenhoffer, New York (with label on frame).
Collection Helen W. Benjamin, New York.
Collection Mary B. Arnstein, USA.
Private collection Germany.
EXHIBITION: Meister der klassischen Moderne, Haus Beda, Bitburg, September 29 - October 27, 2013, no. 9.
Lyonel Feininger. Ein Meister am Bauhaus, Düsseldorf 2010 (ex. cat. with illu.).
240
Lyonel Feininger
Under Shortened Sail, 1937.
Watercolor and India ink drawing
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 45,200 Sold:
€ 68,750 / $ 77,687 (incl. surcharge)
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