Lyonel Feininger
1871-1956
Standing Woman with Clasped Hands, and a Boy Seen from Behind
1908
Woman's figure in pencil, boy's figure in blue-red, orange, and black crayon, on graph paper punched twice along left edge.
5 7/8 x 3 9/16 inches (149 x 91 mm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Colin.
© Lyonel Feininger / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
1974.67:6
Notes:
Watermark: none.
The woman's figure closely resembles that in another drawings illustrated by Hess, 48, and subsequently appears in the artist's painting The Manhole I (Hess, 49).
Inscription:
Signed and dated with monogram at upper right in pencil, "mAR 16 08 Lf"; inscribed by the artist at lower right, "woman's figure / in "1st Canalisations / Loch". Inscribed on verso in pencil, "nur Frauenfigur / Text unter Figure / stillen".
Provenance:
Mrs. Julia Feininger, the wife of the artist; her gift to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Colin.
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