LYONEL FEININGER | VILLAGE

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October 5, 05:28 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION

LYONEL FEININGER

1871 - 1956

VILLAGE

Dated Mon Aug.23 09 (lower center)

Colored crayon on paper

3⅞ by 6¼ in. (118.1 by 190.5 cm)

Framed: 10½ by 12⅞ in. (26.7 by 32.7 cm)

Executed on August 23, 1909.

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. 1661-08-18-20.

Alois J. Schardt, Halle, Berlin & Los Angeles (a gift from the artist)

Private Collection (by descent from the above)

Achim Moeller Fine Art Ltd., New York (acquired by 1990 and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 14, 1992, lot 119)

Acquired at the above sale

New York, Achim Moeller Fine Art Ltd., Lyonel Feininger, Figurative Drawings 1908-1912, 1990, no. 43, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Feininger created the present work during the summer of 1909, while on vacation on the island of Usedom in the Baltic Sea.