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Colored crayon on thin machine-paper with two perforation holes in the upper margin USA, 1909 Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) - important German-American painter, graphic artist and illustrator Dated and inscribed upper left 'SAT.JY 31.09' (Saturday, July 31 09) Framed under mat Overall dimensions, framed: 35 x 39.5 cm Very good condition Provenance: formerly Estate of Lyonel Feininger; Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York, inventory number 'AMFA 420' (verso), gallery label on the back of the frame; thereafter Private Collection, Southern Germany A beautiful characteristic study of a steamboat from Feininger's early creative period - ships are a major theme in Feininger's work; more widely executed works on paper from the same year fetch over 390,000 Euros at international auctions This drawing by Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) is an early work by the artist showing his typical free and energetic style. The present work depicts an ancient sidewheeler with a tall chimney, which Feininger brought to paper with vigorous, expressive strokes. Details like the jagged trail of smoke were used in later representations as a favored formal element. The sea and ships are a major theme that runs through the artist's entire oeuvre. The recurring maritime subject matter, be it in paintings, drawings or prints, illustrates Feininger's fascination with weather phenomena on the high sea and his knowledge of different boat types. The work used to be in the inventory of the gallery Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York. Achim Moeller is a renowned scholar and leading expert on Feininger and oversees 'The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC', the three-volume catalogue raisonné of Feininger's paintings is currently in preparation. The sheet is in very good condition. It is dated and inscribed upper left 'SAT.JY 31.09' (Saturday, July 31 09). On the verso it is inscribed in pencil with the inventory number of Achim Moeller Fine Art Ltd. 'AMFA 420'. The frame shows signs of wear. The framed work measures 35 x 39.5 cm, the sheet measures 8 x 13.3 cm. Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) Lyonel (Léonell Charles) Feininger was born in New York in 1871. He came to Germany for the first time at the age of 16. He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule Hamburg, the Royal Academy in Berlin and later in Paris under the sculptor Filippo Colarossi. Back in Berlin he worked as a commercial caricaturist for various magazines. In 1906 Feininger visited Paris again where he met Robert Delaunay and Henri Matisse. Five years later six of Feininger's works were shown at the 'Salon des Artistes Indépendants'. The artist became acquainted with cubism and in Germany he got to know the members of the artists' groups Brücke and Blauer Reiter. In 1919 he was hired by Walter Gropius as the head of the graphic workshop at the newly founded Bauhaus. Since Feininger's works were considered 'degenerate art' during the Nazi regime, the artist moved back to the United States in the late 1930s, continuously working with German subject matter. In 1944 the Museum of Modern Art showed a first retrospective of the artist together with the American painter Marsden Hartley. The MoMA still houses some of Feininger's work, especially his early comics. Today Lyonel Feininger is known as one of the most important artists of the classical modern period whose works are represented in the most renowed museums worldwide. Due to the legal obligation for the resale royalty in the art market the following applies: As a result of its membership in the AV Kunst, Auctionata charges additionally to the hammer price the contribution to the AV Kunst of currently 2.1% of the revenues from the sale of fine arts and photographs pro rata towards the buyer. More information about royalty right in our T&C.