Sale: 554 / Modern Art Day Sale, June 08. 2024 in Munich 
Lot 124000359
Lot 124000359 
Raumbeispiel
124000359
Lyonel Feininger
Straßenszene, 1952.
Watercolor and pen and ink drawing
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000
$ 21,400 - 32,100
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Straßenszene. 1952.
Watercolor and pen and ink drawing.
Lower left signed and dated. On laid paper. 31.5 x 48.6 cm (12.4 x 19.1 in), the full sheet.
[SM].
• After his return to America, Feininger revisited cityscapes as a theme.
• The use of a disintegrated line and a muted palette is characteristic of his later works.
• Feininger is a master of giving lightness and movement to straight, linear forms.
Achim Moeller, director of the Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York - Berlin, has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which is registered in the Lyonel Feininger Project archive under the number 1580-02-26-19.
PROVENANCE: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York.
ACA Galleries, New York.
Southwestern Bell Houston, Texas.
Parrish & Reinisch, Inc, New York.
Sigrid Freundorfer Fine Art, New York.
Private Collection Germany.
EXHIBITION: Lyonel Feininger. Zurück in Amerika. 1937-1956, Stiftung Moritzburg, Kunstmuseum des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle (Saale), May 16 - August 30, 2009, cat. no. 71, pp. 195 and 224.
Die Blaue Vier. Lyonel Feininger, Alexej Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Galerie Thomas, Munich, May 9 - July 19, 2014.
Watercolor and pen and ink drawing.
Lower left signed and dated. On laid paper. 31.5 x 48.6 cm (12.4 x 19.1 in), the full sheet.
[SM].
• After his return to America, Feininger revisited cityscapes as a theme.
• The use of a disintegrated line and a muted palette is characteristic of his later works.
• Feininger is a master of giving lightness and movement to straight, linear forms.
Achim Moeller, director of the Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York - Berlin, has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which is registered in the Lyonel Feininger Project archive under the number 1580-02-26-19.
PROVENANCE: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York.
ACA Galleries, New York.
Southwestern Bell Houston, Texas.
Parrish & Reinisch, Inc, New York.
Sigrid Freundorfer Fine Art, New York.
Private Collection Germany.
EXHIBITION: Lyonel Feininger. Zurück in Amerika. 1937-1956, Stiftung Moritzburg, Kunstmuseum des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle (Saale), May 16 - August 30, 2009, cat. no. 71, pp. 195 and 224.
Die Blaue Vier. Lyonel Feininger, Alexej Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Galerie Thomas, Munich, May 9 - July 19, 2014.
124000359
Lyonel Feininger
Straßenszene, 1952.
Watercolor and pen and ink drawing
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000
$ 21,400 - 32,100
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
