LYONEL FEININGER | VILLEN AU DER SEINE, BEI PARIS (VILLAS ON THE SEINE, NEAR PARIS)

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May 18, 05:14 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Long Island Collection

LYONEL FEININGER

(1871 - 1956)

VILLEN AU DER SEINE, BEI PARIS (VILLAS ON THE SEINE, NEAR PARIS)

Signed Feininger and dated 07 (upper right); titled (on the reverse)

Oil on board

13¾ by 19½ in. (34.9 by 49.5 cm)

Framed: 18¾ by 24¾ in. (47.6 by 62.8 cm)

Painted in Paris in 1907.

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. 1647-03-16-20.

Estate of the artist

Julia Feininger, New York (the artist's wife; by descent from the above)

Acquavella Galleries, New York (acquired from the estate of the above)

Acquired from the above on February 20, 1986

Hans Hess, Lyonel Feininger, London, 1961, no. 9, catalogued p. 249 (titled Villa by the Seine II)

Ernst Scheyer, Lyonel Feininger: Caricature and Fantasy, Detroit, 1964, catalogued p. 100 (titled Villa on the Seine II)

Petra Werner, Der Fall Feininger, Leipzig, 2006, no. 12, illustrated in color p. 124 (titled Villa an der Seine II)

Achim Moeller, "Villen an der Seine bei Paris (II) / (Villas on the Seine near Paris [II]), 1907 (Moeller 009)” Lyonel Feininger: The Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, http://www.feiningerproject.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=9 (accessed on April 23, 2020)