LYONEL FEININGER (1871-1956) Wolken uber'm Meer (Clouds above the Sea)

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, FRANCE
LYONEL FEININGER (1871-1956)
Wolken uber'm Meer (Clouds above the Sea)
inscribed 'grünlich grau' (lower center) and dated '23 8 24' (upper left)
pencil on paper
5 7/16 x 8 11/16 in (13.8 x 22 cm)
Executed in Deep (Mrzeżyno) on the Baltic Sea on August 23, 1924
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. 1892-02-14-24.

Provenance
The artist's estate, New York.
Marlborough Fine Art, London & New York.
Sale: Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, December 4, 1993, lot 173.
(possibly) Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne.
Private collection, Brazil, by 2000.
Thence by descent to the present owner.

Exhibited
Cologne, Galerie Gmurzynska, Lyonel Feininger, Marine, Mellingen, Manhattan, March 5 – May 21, 1994.
Cologne, Galerie Gmurzynska, Lyonel Feininger, March 21 - July 5, 1997.

"I have made drawings and studies from nature for close to thirty years (although I have never painted directly from nature)....I have mastered almost undreamed of natural phenomena of light refraction, perspective (but not the one taught in books!), and the coordination and harmonizing of masses."
- Lyonel Feininger to Alfred Kubin