Badende. 1916.
Pen and India ink drawing.
Lower left signed and dated as well as inscribed "Sonnabend". On thin wove paper. 15.6 x 20 cm (6.1 x 7.8 in) , the full sheet.
With a photo expertise from the The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, Achim Moeller, New York. The drawing is registered at the Feininger Archive with the number 125-07-29-05.
PROVENANCE: Alois Jakob Schardt, Halle, Berlin & Los Angeles (until 1955).
Private collection (inherited from aforementioned).
Achim Moeller Fine Art Ltd., New York (with gallery label on frame covering).
Private collection.
EXHIBITION: Lyonel Feininger. La variante tematica e tecnica nello sviluppo del processo creativo, Museo Cantonale dArte, Lugano, 7 September - 10 November 1991, no. XXII.2.
LITERATURE: Florens Deuchler, Lyonel Feininger, Sein Weg zum Bauhaus-Meister, Leipzig, 1996, p. 135.
Roland März (editor), Lyonel Feininger. Von Gelmeroda nach Manhattan - Retrospektive der Gemälde, 1998, p. 180.