Property of a Private Collector, UK
Lyonel Feininger
Auf Montmartre (In Montmartre)
Lot Closed
April 19, 01:26 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Private Collector, UK
Lyonel Feininger
1872 - 1956
Auf Montmartre (In Montmartre)
signed Feininger (lower left), titled and dated July 1913 (lower right)
charcoal on paper
31.1 by 23.4cm., 12¼ by 9¼in.
Framed: 50.5 by 41cm., 19⅞ by 16⅛in.
Executed in July 1913.
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. 1822-01-23-23. The work will be included in Lyonel Feininger: The Catalogue Raisonné of Drawings and Watercolors by Achim Moeller and Sebastian Ehlert.
Estate of the artist
Marlborough Fine Art, London
Private Collection, UK (acquired from the above)
Thence by descent to the present owner
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Lyonel Feininger, The Early Years 1889-1919: Watercolours and Drawings (Lyonel Feininger. Die Frühzeit 1889-1919: Aquarelle
und Zeichnungen), 1987, illustrated in the catalogue
London, Marlborough Fine Art; Düsseldorf, Beck & Eggeling; Rottach-Egern, Beck & Eggeling, Leipzig, Beck & Eggeling, Lyonel Feininger: City and Sea 1905-1955. Watercolours and Drawings / Lyonel Feininger: Stadt und Meer 1905-1955, 1998-99, no. 28, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
