The Vanishing Hour. 1952.
Pen and India ink drawing, charcoal and pastel.
Lower left signed, monogrammed and dated. Lower right titled. On laid paper (with Hahnemühle watermark). 31.8 x 48.6 cm (12.5 x 19.1 in), the full sheet.
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• The drawing shows buildings opposite Feininger's apartment at 235 East 22nd Street in New York.
• High-quality preliminary drawing for the painting of the same name (Hess 514, private collection Switzerland).
• Works by Lyonel Feininger can be found in numerous important international collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, and the Sprengel Museum, Hanover.

Achim Moeller, Director of the Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York - Berlin, has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which is registered in the Lyonel Feininger Project archive under the number 1950-11-27-24. The work is accompanied by a certificate.

PROVENANCE: Estate of the artist, New York.
Laurence Feininger, Trento.
Estate of Laurence Feininger, Trento.
Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York.
Private Collection Lower Saxony (since 1993, Grisebach, Berlin).

EXHIBITION: Lyonel Feininger, Marlborough Gallery, New York, April 1 - June 1, 1969, cat. no. 123.
Looking at Drawings: Late 19th and 20th Century Master Drawings, Including a Selection of Drawings by Lyonel Feininger and Albert Gleizes“, Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York, spring-summer 1988, cat. no. 30.
Lyonel Feininger: Ölbilder, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Holzschnitte, Galerie Utermann, Dortmund, September 28 - November 5, 1988, cat. no. 23 (illustrated in color).
Lyonel Feininger: La variante tematica e tecnica nello sviluppo del processo creativo (Lyonel Feininger: Dipinti, aquarelli, disegni, incisioni), Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano, September 7 - November 10, 1991, cat. no. XXV.2.

LITERATURE: Grisebach Auktionen, Berlin, Auction 32, June 5, 1993, lot 318 (illustrated).

In good condition. With minimal mount stainign. A 5mm-wide strip of glassine running around the sheet edges, probably from a previous mounting. A tiny (2mm) tear in the upper edge of the sheet. A few tiny pinholes in the sheet corners, resulting from the production process. The sheet as a whole is smooth.
For information concerning the condition, please view the high resolution image / backside image.