Sale: 517 / Modern Art II, June 18. 2021 in Munich Lot 181

 

181
Lyonel Feininger
West Deep an der Rega, 1925.
Watercolor and India ink
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 43,200
Sold:
€ 90,000 / $ 97,200

(incl. surcharge)
West Deep an der Rega. 1925.
Watercolor and India ink.
Lower left signed, lower right dated and titled in center. On laid paper. 28.7 x 44.7 cm (11.2 x 17.5 in), size of sheet.

• Brilliant watercolor in strong contrast.
• Made during the important Bauhaus days.
• As of 1924 the Feiningers spent the summer months in Deep (today Mrzezyno) on the Baltic Sea
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Achim Moeller, director of Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York – Berlin, has confirmed the authenticity of this work. It s registered in the archive of the Lyonel Feininger Project with the number 1689-04-28-21.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany.
Private collection Rhineland.
Private collection Northern Germany (inherited from the above).

LITERATURE: Grisebach, Berlin, 16th auction on November 28, 2008, lot 54.
"Weimar is over, my dear, we'll now go to Dessau“
Lyonel Feininger in a letter to his wife Julia in 1925.




181
Lyonel Feininger
West Deep an der Rega, 1925.
Watercolor and India ink
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 43,200
Sold:
€ 90,000 / $ 97,200

(incl. surcharge)