LYONEL FEININGER (1871-1956) What's the Big Idea?
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK
LYONEL FEININGER (1871-1956)
What's the Big Idea?
signed and dated 'Feininger 1954' (lower left) and inscribed 'What's the Big Idea?' (lower center)
watercolor and pen and India ink on paper
3 5/8 x 6 9/16 in (9.2 x 16.6 cm)
Executed in 1954
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Achim Moeller, Managing Principal of The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York – Berlin, registered under no. 1672-10-15-22.
Provenance
T. Lux Feininger Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts (the artist's son).
Thence by descent to the previous owner; their sale, Grogan and Company, Boston, June 3, 2018, lot 116.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Exhibited
New York, Moeller Fine Art, The Enchanted World of Lyonel Feininger, November 7, 2019 - January 31, 2020, no. 73.
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Lyonel Feininger, Retrospective, October 27, 2023 - February 18, 2024.
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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK
LYONEL FEININGER (1871-1956)
What's the Big Idea?
signed and dated 'Feininger 1954' (lower left) and inscribed 'What's the Big Idea?' (lower center)
watercolor and pen and India ink on paper
3 5/8 x 6 9/16 in (9.2 x 16.6 cm)
Executed in 1954
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Achim Moeller, Managing Principal of The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York – Berlin, registered under no. 1672-10-15-22.
Provenance
T. Lux Feininger Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts (the artist's son).
Thence by descent to the previous owner; their sale, Grogan and Company, Boston, June 3, 2018, lot 116.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Exhibited
New York, Moeller Fine Art, The Enchanted World of Lyonel Feininger, November 7, 2019 - January 31, 2020, no. 73.
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Lyonel Feininger, Retrospective, October 27, 2023 - February 18, 2024.
