Lot 469
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469
Lyonel Feininger
Wolken IV, 1934.
Watercolor and India ink
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 22,600 Sold:
€ 25,400 / $ 28,701 (incl. surcharge)
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.
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.
469
Lyonel Feininger
Wolken IV, 1934.
Watercolor and India ink
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 22,600 Sold:
€ 25,400 / $ 28,701 (incl. surcharge)
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