Lyonel Feininger West Deep 1930 Charcoal... Lot 190

Lyonel Feininger West Deep 1930 Charcoal drawing on laid paper 28.4 x 40.9 cm Framed under glass. Signed, dated and titled 'Feininger West : Deep 24. 7. 30' in the lower margin. - Faintly browned, a slight crease at upper right. Provenance Collection Dr. Hanns Hülsberg, Hagen; Galerie Wilhelm Grosshennig, Düsseldorf (acquired there in 1970); private property Rhineland Exhibitions Düsseldorf 1970/71 (Galerie Wilhelm Grosshennig), German and French Masterpieces of the 20th Century, p. 30 with ill. From 1924 to 1935 Lyonel Feininger spent every summer with his family in the small fishing village and seaside resort of West Deep on the West Pomeranian Baltic coast. Here he made numerous drawings and sketches of the place with its squat fishermen's houses and the sea with its wide sky that he loved so much. As is well known, even after his move to the USA, he looked back with longing on the earlier carefree summer months in Deep.