Vorüberziehende Schauer. 1923.
Watercolor over India ink drawing.
Signed lower left, dated "19. April 1923" lower right as well as titled bottom center. On Japanese paper. 25.4 x 34.3 cm (10 x 13.5 in), size of sheet.
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• An exceptionally subtly nuanced, dramatic seascape from Feininger's early Bauhaus period.
• In the artist's characteristic prismatic-cubist style.
• The Baltic Sea beaches were the main motif of his seascapes from the early 1920s.
• Exhibited early on in a solo show at the Nationalgalerie Berlin.
• Family-owned for more than 60 years.

Achim Moeller, Director of the Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York - Berlin, has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which is registered in the archive of the Lyonel Feininger Project under the number 1932-07-31-24. The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

PROVENANCE: Julia Feininger, Dessau/Berlin/New York (gifted from the artist).
Andreas Feininger, New York (gifted from the above, until 1962: Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett).
Private collection, Southern Germany.
Ever since family-owned.

EXHIBITION: Lyonel Feininger, Ausstellung zum 60. Geburtstag, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, September 19, 1931 - January 31, 1932, cat. no. 68, p. 26.
Lyonel Feininger, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, January 28 - March 6, 1932, cat. no. 73.

LITERATURE: Willi Wolfradt, Lyonel Feininger, Junge Kunst, vol. 47, Leipzig 1924, ill. 30.
Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, Stuttgart, May 3 and 4, 1962, 37th auction, lot 101 (illustrated on plate 181, with a label on the reverse of the frame).