Dampfer und Segelboote (Zeichnung für ein Wandgemälde für das Marine Transportation Building auf dem Gelände der Weltausstellung New York 1939/40). 1938.
Pencil and Chalk drawing, partly with wipe.
Signed and dated lower left. Lower right with a dedication from 1949, pasted at a later point. On machine-made laid paper by Canson & Montgolfier (with truncated watermark). 14.6 x 62.6 cm (5.7 x 24.6 in), size of sheet.
Rare draft for an executed mural.
With a photo expertise by Achim Moeller, New York, from 23 May 2014. The work is registered at the archive of the Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York, under the number 1270-05-23-14.
PROVENANCE: T.M.H. v. Waveren, Bennebroek
Private ownership USA.
EXHIBITION: Lyonel Feininger. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 10 December 1954 -17 January 1955 No. 69b. (without illu.) (verso of frame with truncated handwritten label).