Lot 96
  • 96

Lyonel Feininger

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Lyonel Feininger
  • Trial Spin
  • Signed Feininger and dated 1943 (lower left); titled (lower center)
  • Pen and ink, watercolor and ink wash on paper
  • 11 1/2 by 18 7/8 in.
  • 29.2 by 48 cm
  • Executed in 1943.

Condition

Executed on cream colored laid paper affixed to a mount at several places along upper edge. Edges are reinforced with tape. Artist pinholes at all four corners. Mat stain, approximately 1/4-inch in width, around the perimeter of the sheet. Sheet is time darkened. Watermark runs along right edge. Overall this work is in good condition.
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Catalogue Note

There is a 1943 charcoal study for this watercolor in the collection of the Busch-Reisinger-Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge (Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2010.160). The present work relates to the paintings X 54, 1929 at The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Yacht Race, 1946 (Hans Hess, Lyonel Feininger, Stuttgart, 1959, nos. 306 and 468, illustrated pp. 277 and 293). Additional information for the catalogue entry has been provided by The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York – Berlin.