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Lot 334
  • 334

Lyonel Feininger

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Lyonel Feininger
  • Vier Segler (FOUR SAILBOATS) - rectoDreimastbarke (THREE SHIPS) - verso
  • signed Feininger (lower left), dated i9.vii.45 (lower right), and inscribed to Curt, from Lyonel (lower left)

  • pen and ink, gouache, and watercolour on paper (recto)
    pen and ink on paper (verso)

  • 19.4 by 28cm., 7 5/8 by 11in.

Provenance

Private Collection, Canada

Exhibited

Fort Dodge, Blanden Memorial Art Gallery & Oxford, Miami University Art Museum, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Works of Art on Paper by Paul Klee and Lyonel Feininger, 1980-1981, no. 42

Condition

Please note that the work was not examined unframed for this report. Executed on cream japan paper, not laid down. The work is sandwiched between two sheets of glass, so that both recto and verso images are visible. There is an artist's pinhole to each of the four corners and a tiny horizontal crease towards the upper left corner. Otherwise, both sides of this work are in overall very good condition. Colours: Overall fairly accurate in the printed catalogue, though the sea is slightly lighter in the original.
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