1871 – New York – 1956
”Wolken überm Meer I”. 1923
Oil on canvas. Relined. 36 × 60 cm (14 ⅛ × 23 ⅝ in.) Signed and dated lower left: Feininger 23. On the stretcher titled and signed in pen and brush in black: Wolken am Meere, 1. Version. There too remains of a label of the Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, and a stamp of Moderne Galerie Stangl, Munich
Provenance
Moritz Noack, Berlin/Oberstdorf/Munich (from 1924 to latest 1934 married with Marianne Feininger, daughter from the first marriage of the artist with Clara, née Fürst) / Moderne Galerie Stangl, Munich (circa 1948/52) / Curt Valentin Gallery, New York / Ludmilla and Hans Arnhold, New York (acquired 1952 from Curt Valentin, New York) / Private Collection, Europe
EUR 800,000 - 1,200,000
USD 842,000 - 1,260,000
Sold for:
2,368,000 EUR (incl. premium)
Auction Winter 2023
Selected Works, 30 November 2023
Exhibition
Aufstieg und Fall der Moderne. Weimar, Schloßmuseum (part I: Aufstieg und Fall der Moderne) and Mehrzweckhalle (part II: Die Kunst dem Volke – erworben: Adolf Hitler, and part III: Offiziell/Inoffiziell - Die Kunst der DDR), 1999, p. 307, ill. 200
Literature and illustration
Florens Deuchler: Lyonel Feininger. Sein Weg zum Bauhaus-Meister. Leipzig, Seemann, 1996, p. 196