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Lot 380 D

Lyonel Feininger - Sonne über den Häusern

Auction 1023 - overview Cologne
26.11.2013, 18:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 12.000 € - 15.000 €

Lyonel Feininger

Sonne über den Häusern
1951

Watercolour and pen and ink 22.8/23 x 24.8/25 cm Feininger 29.X.51.

Watercolour and pen and ink on laid paper 22.8/23 x 24.8/25 cm, framed under glass. Signed and dated 'Feininger 29.X.51.' in pen and ink lower right, inscribed "X" lower left and on top "O" and "+" in pencil (joined). - The paper with some minimal brownish spots. Pin holes in the corners.

Provenance
Galerie Neher, Essen (label verso); private collection, Rhineland

According to the kind information of Achim Moeller, New York, Lyonel Feininger marked those works not designated for sale but for the joint collection of his wife Julia and himself with an "X" and an upside-down female gender symbol (O and +).

Provenance

Galerie Neher, Essen (label verso); private collection, Rhineland