L y o n e l =F e i n i n g e r - - 1 8 7 1 - 1 9 5 6

Das Tor (The Gate) - 1912, Etching and Drypoint.

Prasse 52. Edition 125. Signed in pencil. Signed, titled and dated in the bottom plate margin.

Image size 10 5/8 x 7 13/16 inches (270 x 198 mm); sheet size 16 3/8 x 12 5/8 inches (416 x 321 mm).

A superb, richly-inked impression, with pronounced burr throughout, on heavy buff wove Japan, with full margins (2 1/4 to 3 1/8 inches). Published by Gustav Kiepenheuer, Weimar, in 'Die Schaffenden', with the blind stamp lower left.

The gate depicted here is in the town of Ribnitz, a location where Feininger often spent his summers. Jennifer Roberts from MOMA writes that “this print, a high point in Feininger's oeuvre of some sixty-five intaglios from 1906 to 1924, was published after the war in Die Schaffenden, an important series of German print portfolios.” Feininger returned to the United States in 1937 to avoid Nazi persecution as a "degenerate" artist; thereafter his printmaking was confined to a small group of lithographs made with noted printer George C. Miller in New York in the 1950s.

Reproduced: German Expressionist Prints and Drawings, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Prestel, 1989.; Artists & Prints, Masterworks from the Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2004.

Collections: MOMA, LACMA.

SOLD
Verfallenes Dorf (Desolated Village with Sunburst) - 1918, Woodcut.

Prasse W31. Edition proofs only; Signed in pencil. Annotated 1820 b in the artist’s hand in pencil, bottom center sheet edge.

Image size 4 1/2 x 4 1/8 inches (114 x 105 mm); sheet size 6 1/16 x 5 inches (154 x 127 mm).

A fine, black impression, on tissue thin red Japan, with full margins (3/8 to 1 1/2 inches), in excellent condition.

Collection: MOMA.

$11,000.
Angler (mi Sonne); Fishermen (with Sun) - 1919, Woodcut.

Prasse W191. Edition 50 (1921), 30 (1941), one of five known proofs before the published editions. Signed and titled in pencil. Numbered 1971 (the artist's inventory number) in the artist’s hand, in the bottom center margin.

Image size 3 15/16 x 5 1/2 inches (100 x 140 mm); sheet size 8 1/2 x 11 inches (216 x 279 mm).

A fine, black impression, on oatmeal-tan carbon-copy paper, with full margins (1 5/8 to 3 inches). The paper lightly sun-bleached within the original mat opening, otherwise in excellent condition.

From the artist’s estate with the numbered estate stamp in the bottom right sheet corner. Published editions: No.9 of porfolio, Zwolf Holzschnitte von Lyonel Feininger, 1921; No.9 of portfolio, Ten Woodcuts by Lyonel Feininger, 1941.

Cover illustration and frontispiece for the exhibition catalog, Lyonel Feininger (New York: Buchholz and Willard Galleries, March 11-29, 1941; and Detroit Institute of Arts, July-August 1941).

Collections: Ann Arbor; Cambridge BRM; Cincinnati CiPL; Cleveland CMA; Darmstadt BA; Essen, Hamburg; Kaiserslautern; Krefeld; New York MOMA; Philadelphia PAFA; PMA; Saarbrucken; San Francisco AFGA.

$8500.
Kreuzende Segelschiffe 2 (Cruising Sailing Ships 2) - 1919, Woodcut.

Prasse W175. Edition 275 unsigned for portfolio Die tunlte Jahresgabe des Kreises graphischer Kunstler und Sammier, 1925; 25 signed de luxe edition nos. I-XXV, on Japanese Milo paper; 150 signed edition nos. 1-150, on Zanders cream laid paper; 100 unsigned nos. 151-250. Signed and titled in pencil.

Image size 6 x 8 7/8 inches (171 x 225 mm); sheet size 9 1/2 x 11 7/8 inches (241 x 302 mm).

A superb, black, proof impression, apart from the published editions, on tissue-thin cream laid Japan, with full margins ( 7/8 to 1 5/8 inches), in excellent condition.

Feininger estate stamp in the bottom right sheet corner.

Collections: Altenburg, Braunschweig; Bremen; Cincinnati CIAM (proof); Cleveland CMA (proof); Darmstadt BA (proof); Dresden (185/250); Essen; Kaiserslautern (11/150); Karlsruhe (XIV/XXV0); Leipzig MdbK (24/150); Philadelphia PMA; Tel Aviv; Trenton (proof); Washington NGA; Zwickau.

$11,000.
Die Architektur (Architecture); also Stadtbild (Citiscape) - 1920, Woodcut.

Prasse W232. Edition 50. Signed in pencil.

Image size 6 x 8 7/8 inches (152 x 229 mm); sheet size 9 1/2 x 11 7/8 inches (241 x 302 mm).

A fine, black impression, on off-white Japan, with full margins (1 1/4 to 2 1/8 inches), in excellent condition.

No.11 of the portfolio Zwolf Holzschnitte von Lyonel Feininger, 1921.
Provenance: Peter Deitsch Collection; Weimar Museum.

Collections: Cambridge BRM, Darmstadt BA, Hamburg, Kaiserslautern, Krefeld, Munich, Philadelphia Museum of Art.

$9000.
Süssenborn (also known as Little Church) - c. 1926, Woodcut.

Prasse W29. Edition proofs. Unsigned.

Image size 5 3/8 x 5 3/4 inches (137 x 146 mm); sheet size 8 x 9 1/2 inches (203 x 241 mm).

A superb, black impression, on tissue-thin cream laid Japan, with full margins (1 1/8 to 2 inches), in excellent condition.

No. 10 of portfolio, 10 Holzschnitte von Lyonel Feininger. Süssenborn is a village near Weimar in Thuringia.
Provenance: Peter Deitsch Collection; Weimar Museum.

Collections: Cambridge FAM loan, Dresden, Middletown.

$1400.
Abend Am Meere (Evening by the Sea) - c. 1926, Woodcut.

Prasse W248. Edition not stated. Proof prints. Unsigned.

Image size 5 5/16 x 5 1/4 inches (135 x 133 mm); sheet size 9 1/2 x 12 inches (241 x 305 mm).

A superb, black impression, on tissue-thin cream laid Japan, with full margins (2 to 3 1/4 inches), in excellent condition.

No. 8 of portfolio, 10 Holzschnitte von Lyonel Feininger.
Provenance: Peter Deitsch Collection; Weimar Museum.

Collections: Cambridge FAM loan, Dresden, NY MOMA.

$1400.
Manhattan I, Stone 2 - 1951, Lithograph.

Prasse L16. Edition 25. Signed in pencil. Numbered 1/25 in pencil, in the artist’s hand, in the bottom left sheet corner.

Image size 11 1/4 x 8 5/8 inches (286 x 219 mm); 15 3/4 x 11 1/4 sheet size: inches (400 x 286 mm).

A fine, clean impression, on off-white Rives wove paper, with full margins (1 1/4 to 2 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Scarce.

Collections: Boston BPL; Cambridge FAM; Cleveland CMA; Jerusalem BNM; Philadelphia PMA; Washington LC.

$4200.
The Yacht Race - 1918, Woodcut.

Prasse W8. Edition 4 known proofs; 100 (1964). Numbered 23/100 in pencil.

Image size 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (140 x 191 mm); sheet size 12 7/8 x 15 inches (327 x 381 mm).

A fine, black impression, on cream Japan, with full margins (3 1/2 to 3 7/8 inches), in excellent condition.

From the posthumous edition authorized by Julia Feininger and published by Associated American Artists, New York, 1964. The edition was printed by Harold McGrath under the supervision of Leonard Baskin in 100 numbered impressions, authenticated with the blindstamp combining the emblems of Lyonel and Julie Feininger, in the lower right margin.

Collection: MOMA.

$400.
The Harbor (Warship in the Harbor Entrance)- 1918, Woodcut.

Prasse W110. Proofs only; 100 (1964). Numbered 26/100 in pencil.

Image size 6 5/16 x 8 11/16 inches (160 x 221 mm); sheet size 13 x 15 inches (330 x 381 mm).

A fine, black impression, on cream Japan, with full margins (3 to 3 3/8 inches), in excellent condition.

From the posthumous edition authorized by Julia Feininger and published by Associated American Artists, New York, 1964. The edition was printed by Harold McGrath under the supervision of Leonard Baskin in 100 numbered impressions, authenticated with the blindstamp combining the emblems of Lyonel and Julie Feininger, in the lower right margin.

Collections: Cambridge BRM, Darmstadt BA, Essen, Hamburg, Hannover KM, Kaiserslautern, Krefeld, PMA, Saarbrücken, Weimar.

$450.
Ships (Three Sailing Ships) - 1919, Woodcut.

Prasse W151, II. Edition proofs only; 100 (1964). Numbered 51/100 in pencil.

Image size 9 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches (248 x 286 mm); sheet size 17 x 19 1/8 inches (432 x 486 mm).

A fine, black impression, on cream Japan, with full margins (3 to 4 3/8 inches), in excellent condition.

From the posthumous edition authorized by Julia Feininger and published by Associated American Artists, New York, 1964. The edition was printed by Harold McGrath under the supervision of Leonard Baskin in 100 numbered impressions, authenticated with the blindstamp combining the emblems of Lyonel and Julie Feininger, in the lower right margin.

Collections: Aic, Essen, MOMA, NYPL, Syracuse University, NGA, Weimar.

$650.

Home