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This picture shows the following artwork: Lyonel Feininger. ”Düne im Lichtstrahl I” (”Dune, Ray of Light I”). 1933.
This picture shows the following artwork: Lyonel Feininger. ”Düne im Lichtstrahl I” (”Dune, Ray of Light I”). 1933.
This picture shows the following artwork: Lyonel Feininger. ”Düne im Lichtstrahl I” (”Dune, Ray of Light I”). 1933.
This picture shows the following artwork: Lyonel Feininger. ”Düne im Lichtstrahl I” (”Dune, Ray of Light I”). 1933.
This picture shows the following artwork: Lyonel Feininger. ”Düne im Lichtstrahl I” (”Dune, Ray of Light I”). 1933.
This picture shows the following artwork: Lyonel Feininger. ”Düne im Lichtstrahl I” (”Dune, Ray of Light I”). 1933.
38 R Lyonel Feininger

1871 – New York – 1956

”Düne im Lichtstrahl I” (”Dune, Ray of Light I”). 1933

Oil on canvas. Relined. 48 × 76,8 cm (18 ⅞ × 30 ¼ in.). Signed and dated upper right: Feininger 33. On the cardboard backing a label of the Buchholz Gallery, New York, and a label of the exhibition New York 1944/45 (see below). On the decorative frame a label of the Norton Gallery of Art. Catalogue raisonné: Hess 358. Relined. [3163] Framed

Provenance

Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, New York / Herbert Ralston, New York / formerly Private Collection, New York

Addendum/Erratum

With a photo certificate by Achim Moeller, Director of the Lyonel Feininger Project, New York, dated October 22, 2025. The painting is listed in Lyonel Feininger: The Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings by Achim Moeller under number 375. Additional exhibition and literature references: Exhibition: Lyonel Feininger. A Retrospective Exhibition at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, University Gallery, University of Minnesota,1938, Kat.-Nr. 16 („Dune with Light Ray“) Literature: Hans Hess: Lyonel Feininger. Stuttgart, Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 1959 (New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1961), S. 282, Nr. 358 / Ex. cat.: Lyonel Feininger. Natur-Notizen. Skizzen und Zeichnungen aus dem Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University. Emden, Kunsthalle; Cologne, Museum Ludwig; Weimar, Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar, Kunsthalle am Theaterplatz, 1993/94, p. 215 (not exhibited) / Exh. cat.: Lyonel Feininger. Die Zeichnungen und Aquarelle. Hamburg, Kunsthalle; Tübingen, Kunsthalle, 1998, p. 226 (not exhibited) / Hans Schulz-Vanselow: Lyonel Feininger und Pommern. Kiel, Stiftung Pommern, 1999, p. 234, no ill. / Andreas Hüneke: Phantasie in der Kunst und Abstraktion. In exh. cat.: Lyonel Feininger. Segelschiff mit blauem Angler. Quedlinburg, Lyonel-Feininger-Galerie, 2006, p. 11–23, here p. 19 (not exhibited) / Andreas Hüneke: Licht und Schatten der Auflösung. In exh. cat. Lyonel Feininger. Zurück in Amerika. 1937–1965. Halle (Saale), Stiftung Moritzburg, Kunstmuseum des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, 2009, p. 29–35, here p. 30 / Andreas Hüneke: Wurzellos in Manhattan? Beobachtungen zu Feiningers Spätwerk. In: Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen, vol. 53, 2011, p. 60–66, here p. 64, no ill.

EUR 350,000

 

- 450,000

USD 412,000

 

- 529,000

Auction 371

Thursday, November 27th 2025, 6:00 PM

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Exhibition

Lyonel Feininger. Gemälde und Aquarelle. Berlin, Galerie Nierendorf, 1936, cat. no. 2 ("Düne“) / Lyonel Feininger. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1944/45, no cat. no., p. 47

To the accompanying essay by Gloria Köpnick

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