Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956)

Düne II

Details

Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956)
Düne II
signed and titled 'Feininger: düne II' (lower left) and dated '13 9 32' (lower right)
watercolor and pen and black ink on paper
12 5/8 x 18 1/8 in. (32 x 46 cm.)
Painted on 13 September 1932

Provenance

Serge Sabarsky Gallery, New York.
Anon. (acquired from the above, 1979); sale, Christie's, London, 9 October 1997, lot 224.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Exhibited

New York, Serge Sabarsky Gallery, Lyonel Feininger: Drawings and Watercolors, 1979, no. 35 (illustrated).

Lot Essay

The present watercolor closely relates to Feininger's celebrated painting Dunes at Eventide (Hess, 376) in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. As Hans Hess remarked, "In these landscapes, Feininger reached a poetic simplicity and clarity that borders on the abstract-not in the sense of the nonobjective but in the sense of the essential. The poetry of the world is the content of Feininger's pictures."

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