LYONEL FEININGER (1871 1956) Locomotive

Sale 2696 - Lot 112

Price Realized: $ 22,500

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 35,000

LYONEL FEININGER (1871 - 1956)
Locomotive.

Watercolor and ink on laid paper, 1942. 238x311 mm; 9⅜x12¼ inches. Signed in ink lower left, and dated in ink lower right.

Provenance
Kennedy Galleries, New York.
Private collection, New York, 1980.

Exhibited
"Feininger, Klee and the Bauhaus," Shepherd W&K Galleries, New York, May 1 - August 16, 2019.
"Master Drawings New York 2020," Shepherd W&K Galleries, New York, January 24 - February 29, 2020.

Note
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. 1931-07-24-24. A certificate of authenticity accompanies the work.

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Additional Details

According to Ernst Scheyer, in Lyonel Feininger: Caricature & Fantasy (1964), Feininger's childhood home was located near the newly constructed Grand Central Station in New York. Transfixed by machines and industrialization, "Lyonel would stand on the footbridges that spanned the Fourth Avenue tracks and watch the locomotives and the endless perspective of silvery rails... The locomotives had diamond smokestacks and jutting cowcatchers; their driving wheels were painted a bright vermillion." These symbols of industry became part of Feininger's personal iconography and appear often in his artwork.