ID 1423048
Lot 152 | LYONEL FEININGER (1871-1956)
Estimate value
$ 80 000 – 120 000
Paris (Newspaper Readers)
signed, signed again with initials and inscribed 'Feininger X PARIS L.F.' (lower left); dated '1908' (on the reverse)
watercolor and pen and India ink with white heightening on paper
10 5/8 x 8 ½ in. (26.6 x 21.5 cm.)
Executed in 1908
Provenance
Estate of the artist.
By descent from the above to the present owner.
Literature
J. Ness, Lyonel Feininger, New York, 1974, p. 9, no. 15 (illustrated).
P.K. Schuster, “’Prisma-ismus:’ Feininger, die Avantgarde und die Religion der Kunst” in Lyonel Feininger: Von Gelmeroda nach Manhattan, Retrospektive der Gemälde, exh. cat., Staatliche Museum, Berlin, 1998, p. 248, no. 14 (illustrated).
R.E. Shikes and S. Heller, The Art of Satire: Painters as Caricaturists and Cartoonists from Delacroix to Picasso, New York, 1984, p. 90 (illustrated, p. 91).
Exhibited
Berlin, Ausstellungshaus am Kurfürstendamm, Einundzwanzigste Ausstellung der Berliner Secession, November 1910-January 1911, p. 27, no. 219.
New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., Lyonel Feininger, April-June 1969, p. 14, no. 87 (titled Paris [Moltke-Harden]).
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg and Hannover, Wilhelm-Busch-Museum, Lyonel Feininger: Karikaturen, Comic Strips, Illustrationen, January-May 1981, p. 116, no. 141 (illustrated, p. 117).
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Lyonel Feininger: Retrospective, October 2023-February 2024, p. 264 (illustrated in color, p. 75).
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. 1706-06-30-21.
| Artist: | Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956) |
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| Applied technique: | Painted, Watercolor |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Cityscape |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956) |
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| Applied technique: | Painted, Watercolor |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Cityscape |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Watercolors and drawings |
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