LYONEL FEININGER | Hästende Leute (Hurried People)

Serge Sabarsky Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above on February 2, 1977

This work is in excellent condition. Executed on cream wove paper. The sheet is t-hinged to a mount at the upper left and right corners of its verso. There is a very minor crease in the lower right corner. The sheet is slightly time-stained overall but the medium is extraordinarily well preserved.
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This early work is likely related to a drawing Feininger executed for the Parisian magazine Le Témoin. Another of these drawings, The White Man, inspired an oil Feininger completed the following year that would propel his entry into the world of avant-garde painting. With this new medium, he was able to take greater compositional risks, creating striking tonal contrasts and using daring color combinations in a similar manner to the Fauves. But Feininger would never completely abandon his allegiance to draftsmanship and increasingly emphasized its importance in his oil compositions over the following years.




Achim Moeller has kindly confirmed the authenticity of the work which is to be included in the archives of watercolors and drawings.