Sale: 512 / Modern Art II, Dec. 12. 2020 in Munich button next Lot 457

 

457
Lyonel Feininger
Sailing Ship, 1934.
Watercolor and India ink
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 35,400
Sold:
€ 50,000 / $ 59,000

(incl. surcharge)
Sailing Ship. 1934.
Watercolor and India ink.
Signed in lower left and dated in lower right. On creme wove paper. 19.2 x 28.7 cm (7.5 x 11.2 in), size of sheet. [SM].

• In the difficult years following the closure of the Bauhaus in Dessau and the takeover of the National Socialists, Feininger spent the spring and summer of 1934 in Deep near Stettin on the Baltic Sea.
• Delightful accentuation with blue and pink tones at a time when shades of gray dominate his watercolors.
• Ships and sailing boats are a recurring motif in his watercolors
.

The watercolor is registered in the Lyonel Feininger Archive of Watercolors and Drawings with the number 1327-04-08-15.

PROVENANCE: Collection Margit Bosshard, Basel (with collaged label on rear of the frame).
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (with collaged label on rear of the frame).
James Goodman Gallery, New York (with collaged label on rear of the frame).




457
Lyonel Feininger
Sailing Ship, 1934.
Watercolor and India ink
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 35,400
Sold:
€ 50,000 / $ 59,000

(incl. surcharge)

 


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