Mühle

Details

Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956)
Mühle
signed, dated and inscribed 'Feininger Mühle Dezember 1912' (in the lower sheet margin)
charcoal on paper
image: 7 7/8 x 10 in. (20 x 25.2 cm.)
sheet: 9 3/8 x 12 5/8 in. (23.7 x 32.1 cm.)
Drawn in December 1912

Provenance

Bineth Gallery of Fine Art, Jerusalem.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 12 May 1993, lot 202.
Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York.
Private collection, New Jersey, by whom acquired from the above in 1994; sale; Christie's, New York, 9 November 2000, lot 429.
Acquired by the present owner in 2000.

Literature

S. van Heugten, Avant-gardes, 1870 to the Present, The Collection of the Triton Foundation, Brussels, 2012, p. 546 (illustrated p. 185).

Exhibited

New York, Achim Moeller Fine Art, Lyonel Feininger's Windmills, 1901-1921, November 1993 - January 1994, no. 13.
R. März (ed.), Lyonel Feininger, Von Gelmeroda nach Manhattan, Retrospektive der Gemälde, Berlin, 1998, p. 110 (illustrated).
New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York Collects, Drawings and Watercolors 1900-1950, May - August 1999, no. 101, pp. 232-233 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

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. 1328-04-14-15.

This drawing is related to the oil Die Mühle, 1918 (Hess 188; Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz). Although the oil was painted in 1918, this drawing is one of a group of related works on paper executed in 1911-1912, predating the oil by some years: Moeller records two further drawings, one of which is in the collection of the Harvard Art Museums, and an etching (Prasse E42). Feininger also executed a related woodcut in 1919 (Prasse W187).

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