Sale: 494 / Modern Art, Dec. 07. 2019 in Munich Lot 426

 

426
Lyonel Feininger
Untitled (Promenade), Ca. 1908.
Colored crayon drawing and India ink
Estimate:
€ 12,000 / $ 12,960
Sold:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,600

(incl. surcharge)
Untitled (Promenade). Ca. 1908.
Colored crayon drawing and India ink.
On paper. 10.5 x 13.5 cm (4.1 x 5.3 in), the full sheet. [EH].
Our sheet used to be in the possession of the art historian Alois Jakob Schardt (1889-1955), director of the Städtisches Museums Moritzburg in Halle/Saale as of 1926. He expanded the collection of modern art and taught at the Halle Unversity. In 1929 Schardt commissioned Lyonel Feininger with the series of the "Halle-Bilder", of which three paintings are shown at the Lyonel-Feininger-Galerie in Quedlinburg.

Achim Moeller, director of the Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York/Berlin,confirmed this work's authenticity. It is registered at the archive of the Lyonel Feininger Project with the number 130-07-29-05.

PROVENANCE: Alois Jakob Schardt, Halle, Berlin and Los Angeles (until 1955).
Private collection (inherited from aforementioend, until 1985 the latest).
Collection Achim Moeller, New York (1985-2005).
Private collection Switzerland (from 2005).

EXHIBITION: Lyonel Feininger. Drawings, 1908 - 1912, Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York 1990, no. 7, with color illu.
Lyonel Feininger: Strollers - The Passing Scene Early Drawings and prints 1906-1921, Deutsche Bank Lobby Gallery, New York 2002.
Lyonel Feininger, Menschenbilder, Hamburg Kunsthalle, Hamburg 2003/2004, no. 53, with color illu. on p. 60.

LITERATURE: Sotheby's London, June 21, 2005, lot 134 .




426
Lyonel Feininger
Untitled (Promenade), Ca. 1908.
Colored crayon drawing and India ink
Estimate:
€ 12,000 / $ 12,960
Sold:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,600

(incl. surcharge)