Lyonel Feininger
Hinter der Badestube
1906
Pencil drawing on sketch block paper. 21 x 14.3 cm. Framed under glass. Inscribed and dated 'Hinter der Badestube, Freitag d. 23.II.06' in pencil upper right. With oval estate stamp "Feininger Estate" verso (not in Lugt) and numbered in pencil "B 88". - In good condition. Minor tears along the upper edge.
The sheet "Hinter der Badestube" shows the view from the artist's house at Kurthstraße 16 in Weimar.
Certificate
Achim Moeller, director of the Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York - Berlin, has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which is registered in the archives of the Lyonel Feininger Project under the number 1824-02-10-23. Certificate enclosed.
Provenance
Estate of Lyonel Feininger, New York; Marlborough Fine Art, London (1987, label on reverse); Marlborough Gallery, London (1996, label on reverse); Collection Walter Brune, Düsseldorf
Literature
Among others Wolfgang Büche, Lyonel Feininger. Die Halle-Bilder, Munich 2010, p. 62; Martin Faass, Feininger im Weimarer Land, Kromsdorf 1999, p. 13
Exhibitions
Among others Lugano 1991 (Museo Cantonale d'Arte), Lyonel Feininger: La variante tematica e tecnica nello sviluppo del processo creativo, cat. no. II.1; Apolda 1999 (Kunsthaus Apolda), Feininger im Weimarer Land, cat. no. 8, with illus.