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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.
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