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Yachts: the big cutter class 1929 £9,473 (DM 95,000)
14 1/4 x 27 1/2 in. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated.
LEMPERTZ KUNSTAUKTIONHAUS, Cologne.
In every instance known to me Feininger has signed
and dated his paintings, and often titled them as
well. The prices given below, when not otherwise
acknowledged, were those asked by R. N. KETTERER
of Campione-bei-Lugano in 1965.

Scharenkreuzer 1930
£3,360
17 x 30 in. Signed and dated. CHRISTIE'S.
Estuary 1944 £1,075 ($3,000)
11 1/4 x 17 in. Pen and watercolour.
Exhib. Museum of Modern Art, N.Y., PARKE-BERNET.
Rue Saint-Jaques, Paris 1943 £2,500 ($7,000)
19 x 16 in. Linear architectural fantasy.
Signed, titled and dated on stretcher. PARKE-BERNET.
framework reminiscent of crystal lattices. In his most frequent occurrences in the sale-room, his Pink Sky 1939
£420 ($1,200)
later work he combined this with a talent for finest work was undoubtedly that based on old 141 x 21 in. Pen and watercolour.
rendering the atmospheric effects of light in a Gothic architecture and those narrow streets of Signed and dated 18 August 1939.
manner somewhat akin to that of Turner. He medieval German cities which all too often disap- A vessel in blue, orange, and yellow, flying the
found inspiration in ships, especially steamships, peared in the holocaust of the Hitler War. A fine German flag. PARKE-BERNET.
and yachts with triangular sails, with which, in his example is to be found in Essen's Folkwang
later work, he often combines the luminosity of the Museum. This, the Gelmeroda of 1926, is the subject Yachts
£420 ($1,200)
sea, and of coasts, estuaries, and moorings. of the pen-drawing listed below. Among several 11+ x 18 in. Ink and wash. PARKE-BERNET.
Feininger's art owes something to that of Klee, linear architectural fantasies done in Paris two are
who joined the Bauhaus in 1921 and remained also noted. Schiff auf grüner See (Ship on a green sea)
until 1930. His associations with the Blaue Reiter Prices are principally for watercolours and draw- 8 x 8 5/8 in. Watercolour. £666 (DM 7,000)
school are especially evident in his early work. ings of one kind or another. Those for important Signed and dated 17.7.34.
Although paintings of shipping are probably the oil-paintings would, of course, be greater.
£1,432 (DM 16,000)
Paris Facades I 1953
18 7/8 x 13 3/4 in. Watercolour. Signed and dated.
£1,027 (Dm 11,500)
Gelmeroda 1927
131 x 11+ in. Pen drawing with wash.
Signed, titled, and dated.
Kirche von Ober-Weimar (Church at Ober-Weimar) 1920
94 x 12* in. Watercolour.
£1,400 (DM 17,500)
Signed, titled, and dated.
£1,100 (DM 12,500)
Dünung III 1924
11 x 14 in.
Signed, titled, and dated.
Painted on the sea-coast of Pomerania.
Smoke Script 1954
£1,230 (DM 13,800)
9 1/4 x 12 3/8 in. Watercolour.
Signed and dated. On the back the dedication of the
artist. Smoke patterns from steamers.
Segelschiff mit blauer Wolke (Sailing ship with blue
£1,140 (DM 12,800)
clouds) 1939
10 7/8 x 15 1/4 in. Watercolour.
Signed and dated with the artist's dedication.
£715 (DM 8,000)
Gaberndorf 1949
7i x 11* in. Watercolour.
Signed and dated. Based on a Gothic church spire.
Perpendicular Wind-arrows 1934
£530 (DM 6,000)
7 x 9 in. Watercolour.
Signed, titled, and dated on the back.
Mannliche Figur, crayon and watercolour, 17 1/4 x 11 3/4 in. Leon Bakst's Danseuse: L'Oiseau de Feu de Based on a full-rigged sailing ship.
by Egon Schiele, sold at Parke-Bernet, New York, Diaghelev, poster paints and pencil, 19 x 12+ in.,
for $2,500 (£900). In the same sale, held on March 10, sold for 220 gns ($650) in a sale at Christie's on
£1,230 (DM 13,800)
a Maximilien Luce watercolour, La Moisson, 12 x 9 March 18 which also included a Chirico oil // Canal Schiff mit grosser Rauchfahne 1953
in., sold for $3,400 (£1,200), and a Jean Dufy water- Grande, Venezia, 26 1/2+ x 38 1/2 in. 1,700 gns ($4,990) 12 3/8 x 18 7/8 in. Watercolour.
colour of the same title, 19 x 24 in., for $3,900 (£1,300). and three fine Seurat pencil studies which sold for Signed, titled, and dated. The reverse with the artist's
between 280 gns ($820) and 340 gns ($1,000) each. dedication. A vessel making smoke.
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