Modern Day Auction

Lyonel Feininger

The Sleepwalker

Session begins in

November 19, 04:00 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Bid

20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Lyonel Feininger

1871 - 1956

The Sleepwalker

signed Feininger and dated 1940 (lower left); titled (lower center)

watercolor and pen and ink on paper

11 ⅛ by 17 ⅝ in.

28.3 by 44.8 cm.

Executed in 1940.

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. 1944-10-25-24. The work will be included in Lyonel Feininger: The Catalogue Raisonné of Drawings and Watercolors by Achim Moeller and Sebastian Ehlert.

Additional information was provided by Achim Moeller, The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York – Berlin.

Serge Sabarsky Gallery, New York

Private Collection, New York (acquired circa 1960s)

Acquired by descent from the above in 2017 by the present owners

New York, Willard Gallery; The Art Museum of Wellesley College; Museum of Fin Arts Boston; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Santa Barbara Museum of Art and Des Moines Art Center, Gables: A Comprehensive Exhibition of Work from 1921 to 1954 Based on One Theme by Lyonel Feininger, 1956-57, n.p.

New Rochelle Public Library, Art from Private Collections, 1980