Lyonel Feininger
Lyonel Feininger
1871 - 1956
Zwey Briggs. 1933.
Watercolor and pen-and-ink drawing.
Signed and titled in the lower left, dated in the lower right. On slightly off-white paper. 28 x 38 cm (11 x 14.9 in), size of sheet.
With the estate stamp “Feininger Estate” (not listed in Lugt) on the reverse. [AR].
• A colorful seascape featuring his characteristic, delicate ink lines.
• Until shortly before this watercolor was created, Feininger taught at the State Bauhaus in Weimar (1919–1932).
• Other watercolors from this year are at museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Achim Moeller, Director of The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York–Berlin, has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which is registered in the archive of The Lyonel Feininger Project under the number 2102-09-29-26. The work is accompanied by a certificate.
Additional information was provided by Achim Moeller, The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York–Berlin.
PROVENANCE: The artist’s estate, New York.
Julia Feininger, New York.
Estate of Julia Feininger, New York.
Marlborough Fine Art, New York/London.
Roman Norbert Ketterere, Campione d’Italia.
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Private collection, Northern Germany (inherited from the above).
EXHIBITION: Lyonel Feininger. Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, Bühler Graphics, Stuttgart, Oct. 20–Dec. 16, 1972, cat. no. 18, pp. 7 and 17 (illustrated in black and white).
LITERATURE: Roman Norbert Ketterer (ed.), Moderne Kunst IX, Inventory Catalog, Stuttgart 1976, cat. no. 14 (illustrated in color).
Lyonel Feininger
1871 - 1956
Zwey Briggs. 1933.
Watercolor and pen-and-ink drawing.
Signed and titled in the lower left, dated in the lower right. On slightly off-white paper. 28 x 38 cm (11 x 14.9 in), size of sheet.
With the estate stamp “Feininger Estate” (not listed in Lugt) on the reverse. [AR].
• A colorful seascape featuring his characteristic, delicate ink lines.
• Until shortly before this watercolor was created, Feininger taught at the State Bauhaus in Weimar (1919–1932).
• Other watercolors from this year are at museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Achim Moeller, Director of The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York–Berlin, has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which is registered in the archive of The Lyonel Feininger Project under the number 2102-09-29-26. The work is accompanied by a certificate.
Additional information was provided by Achim Moeller, The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York–Berlin.
PROVENANCE: The artist’s estate, New York.
Julia Feininger, New York.
Estate of Julia Feininger, New York.
Marlborough Fine Art, New York/London.
Roman Norbert Ketterere, Campione d’Italia.
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Private collection, Northern Germany (inherited from the above).
EXHIBITION: Lyonel Feininger. Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, Bühler Graphics, Stuttgart, Oct. 20–Dec. 16, 1972, cat. no. 18, pp. 7 and 17 (illustrated in black and white).
LITERATURE: Roman Norbert Ketterer (ed.), Moderne Kunst IX, Inventory Catalog, Stuttgart 1976, cat. no. 14 (illustrated in color).
