About the Artwork
Marine II
1925
Lyonel Feininger
1871-1956
American
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Watercolor and pen and ink on cream laid paper
Sheet: 11 1/2 × 15 7/8 inches (29.2 × 40.3 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Bequest of John S. Newberry
65.195
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Markings
Signed, in pen and ink, lower left: Feininger
Inscribed, in pen and ink, lower center: Marine II Inscribed, in pen and ink, lower right: 21 8 25 Inscribed, in pencil verso, below Mannheim Kunsthalle stamp: 2235 Inscribed, in pencil verso: 1458
Stamped, in brown ink, lower left, verso: Mannheim Kunsthalle [vertically in long oval; related to Lugt 1781e, but with vertical design through center]
Provenance
(Galerie Neue Kunst Fides, Dresden);-1926 - August 28, 1937: purchased by Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany;
August 28,1937 - December 13, 1940, confiscated as "degenerate" art by Deutsches Reich/ Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, Berlin;
-August 1938 - December 13, 1940, warehoused at Depot Schloß Schönhausen, Berlin, as "international verwertbare Kunst";
December 12, 1940 - XXXX: (purchased by Buch- und Kunsthandlung Karl Buchholz, Berlin, Germany);
1941 - XXXX: (transferred to Buchholz Gallery Curt Valentin, New York, USA)
XXXX - by 1948, (Karl Nierendorf gallery, New York, New York, USA);
by 1948 - 1965, purchased by John S. Newberry, Jr., (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA);
1965-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Arts and Crafts in Detroit. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1976, p. 195, no. 257 (ill.).
Drawings and Watercolors from the Collection of John S. Newberry. Exh. cat., Buchholz Gallery. New York, 1948, no. 14 (ill.).
Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Collection of John S. Newberry. Exh. cat., Fogg Museum of Art. Cambridge, MA, 1948, pp. 20-21 (ill.).
The Work of Lyonel Feininger. Exh. cat., The Print Club of Cleveland and The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, 1951, p. 18, no. 52 (pl. XIV).
European and American Watercolors from the John S. Newberry Collection. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1960, no. 22 (ill.).
Fifty-one Watercolors and Drawings, John S. Newberry Collection. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, 1962, no. 39.
The John S. Newberry Collection. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1965, p. 37 (ill.).
Lyonel Feininger. Exh. cat., Haus der Kunst and Kunsthaus. Munich and Zurich, 1973, p. 204, no. 208.
Newberry Collection. Exh. cat., California Palace of Legion of Honor. San Francisco, 1948, no. 736.
Work of Lyonel Feininger. Exh. cat., Print Club of Cleveland and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, 1951, no. 52.
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Lyonel Feininger, Marine II, 1925, watercolor and pen and ink on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of John S. Newberry, 65.195.
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