LYONEL FEININGER (1871-1956)

Details

LYONEL FEININGER (1871-1956)

Deep

signed, dated and titled across the bottom 'Feininger 16-7-32 Deep'-- watercolor, charcoal, pen and black ink on paper
13½ x 18¼ in. (34 x 46 cm.)
Painted on July 16, 1932

Provenance

Julia Feininger, New York
Gift from the above to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph F. Colin in 1963

Exhibited

Tokyo, The Second International Art Exhibition, Japan: Seven American Watercolorists, May-Sept., 1953
London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Lyonel Feininger, Drawings and Watercolours, Sept.-Oct., 1968, p. 10, no. 23

Lot Essay

Achim Moeller will include this watercolor in his Feininger Archives of Watercolors and Drawings.

Deep is a village on the Baltic Sea where the Feiningers spent their summers before moving to America in 1937. This watercolor was painted the day before the artist's 63rd birthday.