ID 1209990
Lot 804 | LYONEL FEININGER (1871-1956)
Estimate value
$ 120 000 – 180 000
Feininger, L.
The Hidden Village
signed 'Feininger' (lower left); signed again, dated and titled 'L. Feininger 1948 The Hidden Village' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1948
Provenance
Estate of the artist (until at least 1960).
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner.
Literature
H. Hess, Lyonel Feininger, New York, 1961, p. 295, no. 481 (illustrated, p. 234, pl. 62).
A. Moeller, Feininger and Tobey: Years of Friendship 1944-1956, New York, 1991, p. 71.
C. Weber, Lyonel Feininger: Genial, verfemt, berühmt, Weimar, 2014, p. 130.
A. Moeller, Lyonel Feininger: The Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (http://www.feiningerproject.org/catalogue), no. 498.
Exhibited
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, 35 American Painters of Today, February-March 1950, no. 6.
New York, Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), Lyonel Feininger, April 1950, no. 2.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Work of Lyonel Feininger, November-December 1951, p. 18, no. 43.
New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, Lyonel Feininger, March-April 1952, no. 20.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Lyonel Feininger, December 1954-January 1955, no. 29 (titled Afgelegen dorpje).
Munich, Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste and Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft E.V., Lyonel Feininger, September-November 1954, no. 29.
San Francisco Museum of Art; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Cleveland Museum of Art; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Lyonel Feininger Memorial Exhibition: 1959-1961, November 1959-June 1960, no. 59.
York, The City Art Gallery and London, Arts Council Gallery, Lyonel Feininger: Memorial Exhibition, October-December 1960, no. 30.
Kunstverein in Hamburg; Essen, Museum Folkwang and Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Lyonel Feininger: Gedächtnis-Ausstellung, January-June 1961, no. 54 (illustrated).
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Lyonel Feininger, April-May 1968, no. 29.
New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., Lyonel Feininger, April-June 1969, p. 13, no. 69 (illustrated, p. 86).
Further details
Achim Moeller, Managing Principal of The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York–Berlin has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which is registered under no. 1913-03-26-24.
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