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. 1498-08-07-18.
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Property from the Collection of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956)
Two Sailing Ships and Iceberg
Details
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956)
Two Sailing Ships and Iceberg
signed and dated 'Feininger. 1942' (lower left)
gouache, watercolor, pen and India ink on paper
21 ¾ x 30 ½ in. (55.1 x 77.3 cm.)
Executed in 1942.
Two Sailing Ships and Iceberg
signed and dated 'Feininger. 1942' (lower left)
gouache, watercolor, pen and India ink on paper
21 ¾ x 30 ½ in. (55.1 x 77.3 cm.)
Executed in 1942.
Provenance
J.H. Taylor Management Co., New York
Mr. J. Baer, New York
Norton Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1968
Mr. J. Baer, New York
Norton Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1968
Exhibited
New York, Helen Serger (La Boétie), Inc., Lyonel Feininger, November-December 1966, no. 16 (illustrated; titled Chinese Junks).
San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Graphics from Four Bay Area Collections, 1973.
Stanford University Museum of Art, Twentieth Century Drawings from the Anderson Collection: Auguste Rodin to Elizabeth Murray, November 1988-February 1989, pp. 6 and 29, no. 10.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, October 2000-January 2001, pp. 310 and 363, no. 84, pl. 174 (illustrated with incorrect medium).
San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Graphics from Four Bay Area Collections, 1973.
Stanford University Museum of Art, Twentieth Century Drawings from the Anderson Collection: Auguste Rodin to Elizabeth Murray, November 1988-February 1989, pp. 6 and 29, no. 10.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, October 2000-January 2001, pp. 310 and 363, no. 84, pl. 174 (illustrated with incorrect medium).
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