Lot 389
  • 389

LYONEL FEININGER | Cityscape

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

Description

  • Lyonel Feininger
  • Cityscape
  • signed Feininger and dated 1952 (lower left)
  • watercolour, pen and ink and pencil on paper
  • 15.7 by 21.5cm., 6 1/8 by 8 1/8 in.
  • Executed in 1952.

Provenance

Galerie Alex Vömel, Dusseldorf
Private Collection, North Rhine-Westphalia
Sale: Ketterer Kunst GmbH, Munich, 11th June 2015, lot 58
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Munich, Bayerische Akademie der Künste & Hannover, Kerstner-Gesellschaft, Lyonel Feininger, 1954, no. 80

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down. There is a Watermark at the upper centre of the sheet. The sheet is hinged to the overmount at two points on the verso of the upper edge. The edges are slightly uneven and the lower edge is deckled. The sheet is lightly time-stained. There are three flattened creases running horizontally across the sheet: parallel to the upper and lower edges and through the centre of the composition. There is a further vertical crease running parallel to the left edge and another running from the right part of the upper edge. There are minor spots of surface abrasion visible along the perimeter of the sheet which appear to be related to the removal of an old mounting. This work is in overall good stable condition.
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Catalogue Note

Achim Moeller, Managing Principal of The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York-Berlin has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which is registered under no. 1346-06-02-15.