Bretonische Sardinenfänger. 1931.
Watercolor and India ink on laid paper.
Signed and titled in lower left and dated in lower right. 24.5 x 42.5 cm (9.6 x 16.7 in), size of sheet.
[AR].
• Marvelous watercolor in a subtle execution from the late Dessau Bauhaus years.
• Feininger makes the silence palpable, capturing it in cool colors and clear lines.
• One of the artist's preferred motifs: sea, clouds, ships and figures in ever new constellations and compositions.
• Family-owned for more than 50 years.

Achim Moeller, director of the Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York – Berlin, has confirmed this work's authenticity, it is registered in the archive of the Lyonel Feininger Project as 1880-10-24-23. The lot is accompanied by the certificate.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Northern Germany (since 1967).
Ever since family-owned.

LITERATURE: Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Moderne Kunst, auction 155, Hamburg, November 18, 1967, lot 257 (fig. p. 53).