Lot 470 
470
Lyonel Feininger
Bretonische Sardinenfänger, 1931.
Watercolor and India ink on laid paper
Estimate:
€ 25,000 / $ 28,250 Sold:
€ 69,850 / $ 78,930 (incl. surcharge)
Bretonische Sardinenfänger. 1931.
Watercolor and India ink on laid paper.
Signed and titled in lower left and dated in lower right. 24.5 x 42.5 cm (9.6 x 16.7 in), size of sheet.
[AR].
• Marvelous watercolor in a subtle execution from the late Dessau Bauhaus years.
• Feininger makes the silence palpable, capturing it in cool colors and clear lines.
• One of the artist's preferred motifs: sea, clouds, ships and figures in ever new constellations and compositions.
• Family-owned for more than 50 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 as 1880-10-24-23. The lot is accompanied by the certificate.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Northern Germany (since 1967).
Ever since family-owned.
LITERATURE: Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Moderne Kunst, auction 155, Hamburg, November 18, 1967, lot 257 (fig. p. 53).
Watercolor and India ink on laid paper.
Signed and titled in lower left and dated in lower right. 24.5 x 42.5 cm (9.6 x 16.7 in), size of sheet.
[AR].
• Marvelous watercolor in a subtle execution from the late Dessau Bauhaus years.
• Feininger makes the silence palpable, capturing it in cool colors and clear lines.
• One of the artist's preferred motifs: sea, clouds, ships and figures in ever new constellations and compositions.
• Family-owned for more than 50 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 as 1880-10-24-23. The lot is accompanied by the certificate.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Northern Germany (since 1967).
Ever since family-owned.
LITERATURE: Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Moderne Kunst, auction 155, Hamburg, November 18, 1967, lot 257 (fig. p. 53).
470
Lyonel Feininger
Bretonische Sardinenfänger, 1931.
Watercolor and India ink on laid paper
Estimate:
€ 25,000 / $ 28,250 Sold:
€ 69,850 / $ 78,930 (incl. surcharge)
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