Sale: 563 / Modern Art Day Sale, Dec. 07. 2024 in Munich
Lot 123001529
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123001529
Lyonel Feininger
Vorüberziehende Schauer, 1923.
Watercolor over India ink drawing
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000
$ 22,000 - 33,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Vorüberziehende Schauer. 1923.
Watercolor over India ink drawing.
Signed in the lower left, dated "19. April 1923" in the lower right as well as titled in bottom center. On Japon. 25.4 x 34.3 cm (10 x 13.5 in), size of sheet.
[AR].
• 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).
Watercolor over India ink drawing.
Signed in the lower left, dated "19. April 1923" in the lower right as well as titled in bottom center. On Japon. 25.4 x 34.3 cm (10 x 13.5 in), size of sheet.
[AR].
• 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).
123001529
Lyonel Feininger
Vorüberziehende Schauer, 1923.
Watercolor over India ink drawing
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000
$ 22,000 - 33,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.