Lot 140
  • 140

Lyonel Feininger

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description

  • Lyonel Feininger
  • Untitled (Bathers)
  • signed Feininger and dated Sonnab. d. 3. VI. 16 (lower left)
  • pen and ink on paper
  • 15.6 by 20cm., 6 1/8 by 7 7/8 in.

Provenance

Alois Jakob Schardt, Halle, Berlin & Los Angeles (until 1955)
Private Collection (by descent from the above)
Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York (acquired in 1985; sale: Sotheby's, London, 21st June 2005, lot 135)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Lugano, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lyonel Feininger: La variante tematica e tecnica nello sviluppo del processo creativo, 1991, no. XXII.2, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Florens Deuchler, Lyonel Feininger, Sein Weg zum Bauhaus-Meister, Leipzig, 1996, illustrated p. 135
Roland März (ed.), Lyonel Feininger. Von Gelmeroda nach Manhattan - Retrospektive der Gemälde (exhibition catalogue), 1998, illustrated p. 180

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, hinged to the mount in two places along the upper edge and floating in the mount. The sheet is gently undulating and there are a few small nicks to the left edge of the sheet. There is a small repaired tear to the upper part of the left edge (approximately 3mm long). This work is in overall good condition.
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