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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 31, 2017 | Van Ham | Cologne | Modern, Post War, Contemporary | 24 | $****** - ****** | West Deep III , 1932 | |||
Jun 13, 2015 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Klassische Moderne | 265 | $****** - ****** | West Deep III | |||
Jun 9, 2012 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Moderne Kunst | 72 | $****** - ****** | West Deep III | |||
Jun 8, 2012 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Moderne Kunst | 72 | $****** - ****** | West Deep III |
Works on Paper
29.5 x 47.3 cm (11.61 x 18.62 in)
Watercolor and India ink pen on laid paper
Signed and titled lower left: Feininger=West=Deep III. As well as dated lower right: 20 8 32
Estate Michael Vignold, Cologne
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.Throughout Lyonel Feininger's career, the conscious experiencing of nature was the starting point of the American's artistic ventures. Spontaneously 'jotting down' - often in colours - his first visual impression, he produced initial records of these fleeting visions in sketches and drawings, which he would then - sometimes years later - condense to manifest in rigorous compositions of colours in oil or watercolour. Seeking to experience nature most intensely, Feininger was drawn to the Baltic coast, where he would spand several weeks or months in almost every summer since 1891. Alongside the landscape and the bathers, it was the sea in particular that intrigued him. Time and again he captured its sheer infinite vastness in his paintings, just as he did the numerous small fishing and sailing boats. Decisively influenced by Cubism and Futurism, Feininger's characteristic use of forms isolates pictorial elements in geometrical shapes. Their delicate layering determines the tectonic image composition. Transcending their borders and sometimes recurring like echoes, the black lines encompassing the shapes are more than just outlines. While they serve to stabilise the composition, they also generate a sense of tremendous dynamism
