Sale: 554 / Modern Art Day Sale, June 08. 2024 in Munich Lot 487


487
Lyonel Feininger
Entering Swinemünde, 1932.
Watercolor and pen and ink drawing
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 22,000
Sold:
€ 104,140 / $ 114,554

(incl. surcharge)
Entering Swinemünde. 1932.
Watercolor and pen and ink drawing.
Lower left signed, lower right dated and titled in bottom center. On laid paper. 24.5 x 28.5 cm (9.6 x 11.2 in), size of sheet.
[AR].

• A seascape in rarely seen vibrant colors with the characteristic, subtle ink lines.
• Feininger had a great passion for this subject: ships, the sea, clouds and figures are combined in varying constellations to create ever new pictorial compositions.
• From the last year of the Dessau Bauhaus, which the National Socialist local council decided to close in September 1932.
• For the first time offered on the international auction market (source: artprice.com)
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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 1923-05-03-24. The work comes with a certificate.
Additional information was provided by Achim Moeller, The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York - Berlin.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Thomas, Munich.
Private collection Düsseldorf (acquired from the above).
Private collection Northern Germany.




487
Lyonel Feininger
Entering Swinemünde, 1932.
Watercolor and pen and ink drawing
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 22,000
Sold:
€ 104,140 / $ 114,554

(incl. surcharge)