Lyonel Feininger - Trial Sketch for a wall in the "SS Constitution" - image-1

Lot 165 D

Lyonel Feininger - Trial Sketch for a wall in the "SS Constitution"

Auction 1162 - overview Cologne
08.12.2020, 18:00 - Evening Sale - Modern and Contemporary Art
Estimate: 30.000 € - 40.000 €
Result: 62.500 € (incl. premium)

Lyonel Feininger

Trial Sketch for a wall in the "SS Constitution"
1949

Watercolour, coloured chalks, and pen and ink on ivory-coloured wove paper 24 x 63.3 cm Framed under glass. Signed and dated 'Feininger 1949' in pen and ink lower left and inscribed 'trial sketch for a wall in the "SS. Constitution" not carried out'. - Oval stamp "Feininger Estate" verso lower left corner and numbered "52" in pencil. - The wide margins with inconspicuous finger traces.

Certificate

With an expert report by Achim Moeller, The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York, dated 1 November 2011. The work is registered in the archive of drawings and watercolours by Lyonel Feininger under no. 1093-11-01-11.

Provenance

Marlborough International Fine Art, London (frame label); Private collection, North Germany