Lot 68
  • 68

Lyonel Feininger

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Lyonel Feininger
  • Brigg in Dünung
  • Signed Feininger and titled Brigg in Dünung (lower left), dated 1933 (lower right), and inscribed with the artist's device (lower left in margin)
  • Watercolor over pen and ink on paper
  • 12 by 18 1/4 in.
  • 30.5 by 46.4 cm
  • Executed in 1933.

Provenance

Buchholz Gallery, Curt Valentin, New York
Perry T. Rathbone (acquired from the above)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

San Francisco Museum of Art; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Cleveland Museum of Art, Buffalo, Albright-Knox Gallery; and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Lyonel Feininger Memorial Exhibition, 1959-1960

Condition

The medium is Watercolor over pen and ink on paper. The sheet is in very good general condition. The sheet is hinged at two points along the top edge to the mat backing, verso. There is gentle light and mat staining. The work presents very well.
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