About the Artwork
Sailboats
1929
Lyonel Feininger
1871-1956
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 17 × 28 1/2 inches (43.2 × 72.4 cm) Framed: 21 3/8 × 33 × 1 3/16 inches (54.3 × 83.8 × 3 cm)
Paintings
European Modern Art to 1970
Gift of Robert H. Tannahill
69.305
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Markings
Signed, upper right: Feininger 29
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Provenance
October 1929, on consignment from the artist (Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Berlin, Germany)
December 1929, purchased by Verein der Freunde der Nationalgalerie Berlin (Association of Friends of the National Gallery in Berlin) for National Gallery (Berlin, Germany). by 1940, (Buchholz Gallery, New York, New York, USA)
April 1940-1969, Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)
1969-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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The Robert Hudson Tannahill Bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1970, pp. 25, 30 (ill.).
Gombrich, E. Story of Art. London, 1972, p. 462 (ill.).
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Lyonel Feininger, Sailboats, 1929, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Robert H. Tannahill, 69.305.
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