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Lot 147
  • 147

Lyonel Feininger

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Lyonel Feininger
  • Ober Weimar VII (Upper Weimar VII)
  • signed Feininger (lower left), titled lower centre and dated 19. Apr. 1920 (lower right)
  • pen and ink and watercolour on paper

  • 24 by 30.5cm., 9 1/2 by 12in.

Provenance

Acquired by the parents of the present owner in the 1960s

Condition

Executed on cream laid paper, sandwich-mounted at the left and right edges, the upper and lower edges are floating in the mount. The sheet is lightly time-struck and the four edges are deckled. There are pin-holes at intermittent places along all four edges with associated ring marks. Otherwise, this work is in overall good condition. Colours: Overall fairly accurated in the printed catalogue, though the blue tones are slightly lighter in the original.
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