Sketch for Mural: Marine Transportation Building, 1939 New York World’s Fair
FEININGER, Lyonel (1871-1956)

LYONEL FEININGER 1871-1956

New York 1871-1956 New York (American/German)

Title: Sketch for Mural: Marine Transportation Building, 1939 New York World’s Fair, 1938

Technique: Signed, Titled and Dated Watercolour, Pen and Ink Drawing on thin Cream Laid Paper

Paper size: 16.7 x 62.9 cm. / 6.6 x 24.8 in.

Additional Information: This work is hand signed in ink by the artist “Feininger” in the lower left image.

It is also dated in black ink “1938” next to the signature.

It is titled in pencil “Sketch for Mural: Marine Transportation. 1938” in the lower left margin.

Provenance:

Estate of the artist

Marlborough Fine Art, London and New York

Galerie Orangerie-Reinz, Cologne (acquired by 1980)

Sotheby’s, New York, 15 May 1985, lot 205 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Los Angeles (acquired from the above).

Barbara Grant Jaynes, the Former Mrs. Cary Grant

The work is accompanied by a photo-certificate from Achim Moeller and is included in the Lyonel Feininger Archives with the number 1877-10-16-23.

Exhibited:

Paris, Berggruen & Cie., Feininger, huiles, aquarelles & dessins, 1974, no. 68, n.p., illustrated in colour.

Hamburg, Levy Galerie, Lyonel Feininger: Bilder, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, 1978, no. 31, n.p., illustrated in colour.

Cologne, Galerie Orangerie-Reinz, Lyonel Feininger, 1980, n.p., illustrated in colour

Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Lyonel Feininger, Gemälde, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik, 1982, no. 79, p. 150, illustrated.

New York, Leonard Hutton Galleries, The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee, 1984, no. 10, p. 22, illustrated in colour and p. 75.

Condition: Very good condition. The sheet is lightly time-stained, with very slight cockling. The edges are reduced on all sides. Artist’s pinholes in the corner have been repaired, and there is a tiny, repaired tear along the lower left edge. Very minor, unobtrusive foxmarks scattered across the sheet.