LYONEL FEININGER | REGENTAG AN DER SEE (RAINY DAY BY THE SEA)

Auction Closed

July 28, 08:20 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

THE EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE: A PRIVATE FAMILY COLLECTION

LYONEL FEININGER

1871 - 1956

REGENTAG AN DER SEE (RAINY DAY BY THE SEA)

signed Feininger and dated 14 (lower right)

oil on canvas

45 by 70cm., 17¾ by 27¾in.

Painted in Berlin in 1914.

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. 1658-06-20-20. The work is included in Lyonel Feininger: The Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings by Achim Moeller under no. 139. A certificate of authenticity accompanies the work.

Stefan Pauson, Bamberg, Germany & Giffnock, Scotland

Galerie Fritz Nathan & Peter Nathan, Zurich (acquired from the above)

Private Collection, South America (acquired from the above in 1967)

Private Collection, South America (by descent from the above. Sold: Sotheby’s, London, 5th February 2007, lot 10)

Purchased at the above sale

H. Hess, Lyonel Feininger, London, 1961, no. 130, illustrated p. 259

Lyonel Feininger: Figurative Drawings 1908-1912 (exhibition catalogue), Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York, 1990, mentioned n.p.

Lyonel Feininger: Erlebnis und Vision. Die Reisen an die Ostsee 1892-1935 (exhibition catalogue), Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, Regensburg, 1992, mentioned p. 52

H. Schulz-Vanselow, Lyonel Feininger und Pommern, Kiel, 1999, mentioned p. 98

A. Moeller, 'Unidos por el arte. Marchantes, galerías y coleccionistas de Lyonel Feininger', in Lyonel Feininger (exhibition catalogue), Fundación Juan March, Madrid, 2017, p. 336

A. Moeller, Lyonel Feininger: The Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, www.feiningerproject.org, no. 139, illustrated in colour