Lyonel Feininger Lot n° 131

Lyonel Feininger Church of Gelmeroda Around 1913 Black and colored chalks on thin drawing paper. 19.7 x 16.2 cm. Framed under glass. Unmarked. - With unobtrusive crease upper left, otherwise in immaculate condition. Achim Moeller, Director of the Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York - Berlin, has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which is registered in the archive of the Lyonel Feininger Project under the number 1911-03-21-24. A certificate is enclosed with the work. Provenance Alois J. Schardt, Los Angeles; private collection USA (as heir); Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York; Karl & Faber, Munich, auction 3.12.2002, lot 453; private collection North Rhine-Westphalia Exhibitions Berlin 2001 (Galerie Brockstedt), Lyonel Feininger: From Weimar to Gelmeroda 1906-1919, ill. no. 16; Halle/Wuppertal 1995 (Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg/Von der Heydt-Museum), Lyonel Feininger. Gelmeroda: Ein Maler und sein Motiv, cat. No. 106, with illus. p. 143; New York 2000 (Achim Moeller Fine Art), Lyonel Feininger: From the Gelmeroda Cycle, Cat. No. 31, with color illus.