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120,000 - 180,000 EUR

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Lot Details

Description

Lyonel Feininger

1871–1956


The Big Cloud

signed (upper left)

oil on canvas

46 by 71.5 cm.

18⅛ by 28⅛ in.

Executed in 1941.


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. 1106-11-01-11. A certificate of authenticity accompanies the work.

Estate of the artist

Sotheby's London, 28 June 1972, lot 79

Acquired directly at the above sale by the present owner

Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Lyonel Feininger. Von Gelmeroda nach Manhattan, 3 July - 11 October 1998, no. 116, p. 197, illustrated;

Munich, Haus der Kunst, Lyonel Feininger, 1 November 1998 - 24 January 1999;

Halle (Salle), Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Lyonel Feininger: Zurück in Amerika. 1937-1956, 16 May - 23 August 2009, no. 14, p. 87, illustrated;

Apolda, Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde, Feininger und das Bauhaus, 12 September - 19 December 2009

Hans Hess, Lyonel Feininger, Stuttgart, 1961, no. 416, p. 288, illustrated

Jean-Hubert Martin, Carlo Severi and Julien Bonhomme, "Jean-Hubert Martin and Visual Thinking", Gradhiva, issue 13, 18 May 2011, p. 140, illustrated