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157 - FEININGER, LYONEL

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€20,000 - 30,000

Sale fees

35%

FEININGER, LYONEL 1871 New York–1956 New York Title: Untitled (Clouds over the Sea with Two Figures on the Beach). Date: 1934. Technique: Watercolor and India ink on vellum. Dimensions: 23 x 29.5 cm. Inscription: Signed and dated lower left: Feininger 1934. Frame: Framed. A photographic report on this work, prepared by Achim Moeller of The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York, dated June 20, 2010, is available. The work is registered in the archives of The Lyonel Feininger Project under number 340-06-10-10. Provenance: - Estate of Julia Feininger, New York - Private collection, Europe - Lempertz Auction House, Cologne, 1110th auction, June 1, 2018, lot 270 - Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia Exhibition: - Marlborough Fine Art, London, 1988 - Galerie Achim Moeller, Berlin/New York, 2011 Literature: - Exhibition catalog: Lyonel Feininger – City and Sea 1905–1955, Marlborough Fine Art, London, 1988, cat. no. 46, ill. - Exhibition catalog: Lyonel Feininger. Drawings and Watercolors from the Julia Feininger Estate, Galerie Achim Moeller, Berlin/New York 2011, cat. no. 28, p. 66, ill. - The grandeur of the open coastal landscape masterfully captured on paper - Likely created in Deep on the Baltic Sea, where Feininger spent his summers and which became a source of inspiration for him - The delicate, geometric drawings are accompanied by a painterly color scheme, lending the work a mysterious tranquility Estimated shipping costs for this lot: This lot is not suitable for parcel shipping. Transport is available only through a shipping company following consultation after the auction. Additional shipping insurance Shipping insurance up to a total invoice amount of 25,000 euros: max. 41.65 euros For a total invoice amount exceeding 25,000 Euros: 1.8 per thousand Shipping to the USA by individual arrangement after the auction. #Lyonel Feininger #Expressionism #Bauhaus #USA #Modern Art #1930s #Modern Art. In accordance with §26 UrhG (German Copyright Act), VAN HAM is obligated to pay a statutory resale royalty on the sale proceeds of all original works of fine art and photography whose authors have not been deceased for 70 years prior to the end of the calendar year of the sale. The buyer shall contribute 1.5% of the hammer price toward this fee.

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Auction details

DaySale | Modern | Postwar | Contemporary
Thursday, December 3
11:00 AM
Hitzelerstrasse, 2
50968 Cologne, Germany

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Van Ham +(49)2.21.92.58.620 cr-modern@van-ham.com
On Drouot for 5 years avec More than 25,000 lots published

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