Lot 317
  • 317

LYONEL FEININGER | Nermsdorf

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Lyonel Feininger
  • Nermsdorf
  • signed Feininger (lower left), dated 2.7.34. (lower right) and titled (lower centre)
  • pen and ink on paper
  • 23.5 by 35.5cm., 9 1/4 by 14in.
  • Executed on 2nd July 1934.

Provenance

Achim Moeller Fine Art, Ltd., New York 
Leinster Fine Art, London
Private Collection, Germany (acquired from the above in May 1988; sale: Sotheby's, New York, 9th October 2013, lot 55)
Private Collection, New York (purchased at the above sale; sale: Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 6th December 2013, lot 346)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Achim Moeller Fine Art, Ltd., Lyonel Feininger: Visions of City and Sea II: A Small Retrospective Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolors, 1985-86, no. 35

Condition

Executed on buff-coloured wove paper and not laid down. The sheet is T-hinged to a mount at three places along the upper edge of the verso. The sheet is lightly time-stained, and there is a 1cm. thick are of discolouration around the perimeter of the sheet from a previous mounting. This work is in overall good condition.
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Catalogue Note

Achim Moeller confirmed the authenticity of this work. The work will be registered in the archives of The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York – Berlin under the no. 1222-08-22-13.