T. Lux Feininger

(American, 1910-2011)

The Outward Bound Fleet, 1932

oil on canvas

signed LUX (lower left); inscribed Th. Lux and Outward Bound (on the stretcher)

17 3/4 x 33 3/4 in.

This lot is located in Chicago.

The painting is registered in the online catalogue raisonné of T. Lux Feininger's artworks.

Provenance:

Private American Collection, acquired from the 1933 Carnegie International Exhibition of Paintings

Thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited:

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Art Museum, Thirty-First Carnegie International Exhibition of Paintings, October 19 - December 10, 1933, no. 344

Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, European Section of the Thirty-First Carnegie International Exhibition of Paintings, March - April, 1934

Literature:

Paul Reißert, "A Painter of the Seas," Ein Maler des Meeres, Deutsche Arbeit, 35th year, issue 5, May 1935, as gravure supplement

Theodor Lux Feininger, Two Worlds. My Life as an Artist Between the Bauhaus and America, 2011, p. 119

The Outward Bound Fleet, 1932