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THE EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE: A PRIVATE FAMILY COLLECTION
LYONEL FEININGER | LASTTRÄGER AM MEERESSTRAND (I) (BEACHCOMBERS BY THE SEA (I))
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July 28, 08:20 PM GMT
Estimate
700,000 - 900,000 GBP
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THE EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE: A PRIVATE FAMILY COLLECTION
LYONEL FEININGER
1871 - 1956
LASTTRÄGER AM MEERESSTRAND (I)
(BEACHCOMBERS BY THE SEA (I))
signed Feininger and dated 1920 (upper left); titled and dated 1920 on the reverse
oil on canvas
59.5 by 75cm.; 23½ by 29½in.
Painted in 1920.
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. 1607-06-24-19. The work will be included in Lyonel Feininger: The Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings by Achim Moeller under no. 225. A certificate of authenticity accompanies the work.
Julia Feininger, New York (the artist's widow)
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York (acquired from the estate of the above on 7th May 1971)
Private Collection, Germany (acquired from the above on 14th December 1971)
(?) John Erle-Drax (Marlborough Gallery), London (acquired by 1973)
Acquired in 1988
H. Hess, Lyonel Feininger, London, 1961, no. 211, illustrated p. 267
H. Schulz-Vanselow, Lyonel Feininger und Pommern: Eine Materialsammlung, Kiel, 1999, p. 118
Lyonel Feininger: Drawings and Watercolors from the William S. Lieberman Bequest to the Busch Reisinger Museum, (exhibition catalogue), Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich & Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge MA, 2011, pp. 38 & 136 (titled Lastträger am Strande)
A. Moeller, Lyonel Feininger: The Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, www.feiningerproject.org, no. 225, illustrated in colour