Lot 145
  • 145

Lyonel Feininger

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Description

  • Lyonel Feininger
  • CITYSCAPE
  • signed Feininger (lower left) and dated Friday, January 5th 1912 (lower right)
  • pen and ink on paper
  • 27.5 by 24cm., 10 7/8 by 9 1/2 in.

Provenance

Wolfgang Gurlitt, Berlin
A gift from the above to the father of the present owner

Literature

Licht und Schatten, vol. 2, Munich, 1911-12, no. 51, illustrated (titled Vorstadt)

Condition

Executed on white wove paper, not laid down, T-hinged to the mount at two points along the top edge. There are artist's pinholes at intermittent intervals along the left and right edges. Apart from a very faint spot of staining to the left of the turret and two flattened creases, one to the centre of the right edge and the other towards the lower left corner, this work is in very good condition. Colours: The paper is brighter and the contrast is greater in the original.
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