Lyonel Feininger
Untitled (Blue Dunes with Figures)
Artist
Lyonel Feininger
1871 - New York - 1956
Further information
Mit einer Fotoexpertise von Dr. Ulrich Luckhardt, Hamburg, vom 21.2.1999.
Exhibition
Lyonel Feininger, Marine - Mellingen - Manhattan, Galerie Gmurzynska, Köln 1994, S. 62;
Lyonel Feininger, Galerie Gmurzynska, Köln 1997, S. 62;
Lyonel Feininger: Die Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, Kunsthalle Hamburg und Kunsthalle Tübingen, 1998, Kat.-Nr. 168, mit Abb. S. 201 ("Ohne Titel (Dünen").
Lyonel Feininger, Galerie Gmurzynska, Köln 1997, S. 62;
Lyonel Feininger: Die Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, Kunsthalle Hamburg und Kunsthalle Tübingen, 1998, Kat.-Nr. 168, mit Abb. S. 201 ("Ohne Titel (Dünen").
Provenance
Artist’s estate/Julia Feininger, with stamp lower right;
Marlborough Gallery;
Private collection, Switzerland.
Marlborough Gallery;
Private collection, Switzerland.
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Description
• Concentrated, highly reduced visual language with subtle lines and colouring
• Recurring Jershöft motif as a central theme in the oeuvre since 1933
• Small figures as a scale and counterpoint in the vastness of the landscape
Feininger constructs his composition very subtly – with a few black lines and smudged chalk, he suggests a dune landscape and three small figures.
The model for this sheet, which is thought to be one of Feininger’s last drawings, is a sketch dated 15 October 1933 showing a view of the dunes at Jershöft. In a watercolour from the same year, Feininger developed this motif into a finished composition for the first time. He later revisited the motif on several occasions in watercolours and paintings.
• Recurring Jershöft motif as a central theme in the oeuvre since 1933
• Small figures as a scale and counterpoint in the vastness of the landscape
Feininger constructs his composition very subtly – with a few black lines and smudged chalk, he suggests a dune landscape and three small figures.
The model for this sheet, which is thought to be one of Feininger’s last drawings, is a sketch dated 15 October 1933 showing a view of the dunes at Jershöft. In a watercolour from the same year, Feininger developed this motif into a finished composition for the first time. He later revisited the motif on several occasions in watercolours and paintings.