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Lyonel Feininger*
(New York 1871 - 1956 New York)
„Four Lucky Ghosties“
1955
watercolour on paper
12,5 cm x 15,8 cm
signed and dated on the lower left: Feininger 1955
Provenance
Dorotheum Vienna, 24. 11. 2010, no. 579;
private property, Austria
The work is registered in the Lyonel Feininger Archive under the number: 254-7-6-09
Estimate: € 15.000 - 30.000
Result: € 26.400 (incl. fees)
In the early 1950s Feininger made these "Ghosties" or "Männekes", as he named them. He gave these small works as lucky charms to his friends. With this cheerful stick figures he comes back to his early caricatures.