Lyonel Feininger (1871 – New York – 1956). ”Wolken überm Meer I”. 1923 Oil on canvas. Relined. 36 × 60 cm (14 ⅛ × 23 ⅝ in.). Signed and dated lower left: Feininger 23. On the stretcher titled and signed in pen and brush in black: Wolken am Meere, 1. Version. There too remains of a label of the Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, and a stamp of Moderne Galerie Stangl, Munich. Moeller 263 / Hess 233.– [3063] Provenance: Moritz Noack, Berlin/Oberstdorf/Munich (from 1924 to latest 1934 married with Marianne Feininger, daughter from the first marriage of the artist with Clara, née Fürst) / Moderne Galerie Stangl, Munich (circa 1948/52) / Curt Valentin Gallery, New York / Ludmilla and Hans Arnhold, New York (acquired 1952 from Curt Valentin, New York) / Private Collection, Europe Exhibition: Aufstieg und Fall der Moderne. Weimar, Schloßmuseum (part I: Aufstieg und Fall der Moderne) and Mehrzweckhalle (part II: Die Kunst dem Volke – erworben: Adolf Hitler, and part III: Offiziell/Inoffiziell - Die Kunst der DDR), 1999, p. 307, ill. 200 Literature and illustration: Florens Deuchler: Lyonel Feininger. Sein Weg zum Bauhaus-Meister. Leipzig, Seemann, 1996, p. 196 <a href="https://www.grisebach.com/fileadmin/downloads/PDFs/W2023/Grisebach_354_11_FEININGER_EN.pdf">To the accompanying essay</a> by Ulrich Luckhardt <div style="padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/880102448?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;speed=0&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;airplay=0&amp;audio_tracks=0&amp;chapters=0&amp;chromecast=0&amp;closed_captions=0&amp;transcript=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" title="Lyonel Feininger"></iframe></div><script src="https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js"></script> The work is auctioned on behalf of and for the benefit of a European charitable foundation