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Artist or Maker: Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956)

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Description: Mellingen V
signed 'Feininger' (upper right)
oil on canvas
31 1/2 x 39 3/8 in. (80 x 100 cm.)
Painted in 1918

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Provenance: Dr. Alois J. Schardt, Berlin and Pomona, California (acquired from the artist).
Alois W. Schardt (by descent from the above, 1955-1984).
Achim Moeller Fine Art Limited, New York (1985).
Private collection, Germany (acquired from the above, 19 January 1985); sale, Villa Grisebach, Berlin, 24 November 1989, lot 37.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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Exhibited: Munich, Galerie Neue Kunst (Hans Goltz), 48. Ausstellung: Lyonel Feininger, October 1918, no. 33.
Essen, Museum Folkwang, Lyonel Feininger, August 1931.
Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Lyonel Feininger, September 1931, no. 54.
New York, Nierendorf Gallery, Feininger Exhibition, November 1943, no. 11.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Memorial Exhibition: Collection of Dr. Alois J. Schardt, March-April 22, 1956, no. 6.
Florence, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Capolavori dell'Espressionismo Tedesco 1905-1920, 1986, p. 101, no. 40 (illustrated).
Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie; and Munich, Haus der Kunst, Lyonel
Feininger, von Gelmeroda nach Manhattan: Retrospektive der Gemälde, July 1998-January 1999, no. 43 (illustrated in color).

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Published: H. Hess, Lyonel Feininger, New York, 1961, p. 265, no. 187 (illustrated).

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Notes: PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN LADY

We would like to thank Achim Moeller for his help with the catalogue text for this lot. The painting will be included in Volume I (1907-1918) of his catalogue raisonné of the paintings of Lyonel Feininger, to be published on the fiftieth anniversary of the artist's death.

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