LYONEL FEININGER (1871-1956)
LINES OF LIGHT: KLEE AND FEININGER FROM AN IMPORTANT ITALIAN COLLECTION
LYONEL FEININGER (1871-1956)

Blue Haze

Details
LYONEL FEININGER (1871-1956)
Blue Haze
signed, dated and inscribed 'Feininger Blue Haze 27.7.38.' (along the lower edge)
watercolour, wash, brush and pen and ink on paper
12 3⁄8 x 18 7⁄8 in. (31.4 x 48 cm.)
Executed on 27 July 1938
Provenance
Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles.
Jewel Nail Bomar, Fort Worth.
Mr. & Mrs. Sam B. Cantey III, Fort Worth, a gift from the above in 1948, and thence by descent; sale, Christie's, New York, 13 May 1993, lot 168.
Private collection, Italy.
Literature
M. Davidson, 'New Exhibitions of the Week' in Art News, vol. 37, November 1938, p. 13.
Exhibited
New York, Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan Gallery, Lyonel Feininger, Exhibition of Paintings and Watercolors from 1919 to 1938, November 1938; this exhibition later traveled to Milwaukee, Art Institute, December 1938; Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University, January 1939; and Berea, Art College.
San Francisco, Museum of Art, Watercolors by Lyonel Feininger, August - September 1940, no. 20; this exhibition later travelled to Sacramento, Junior College, Little Gallery, September - October 1940; and Oakland, Mills College, Art Library, October - November 1940.
Fort Worth, Art Center, Feininger, A Memorial Exhibition of his work from Fort Worth Collections, March - April 1956, no. 5, p. 9 (illustrated p. 2).
Dallas, Museum of Contemporary Arts, A Retrospective, Lyonel Feininger, April - May 1963, no. 35.
Further Details
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. 2096-09-08-26.
Additional information was provided by Achim Moeller, The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York – Berlin.

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