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Motor Boat I

Object Details

Artist
Lyonel Feininger, American, b. New York City, 1871–1956
Date
July 14, 1929
Medium
Watercolor on paper
Dimensions
sheet: 12 3/8 x 19 in. (31.4 x 48.2 cm) image: 9 3/4 x 16 11/16 in. (24.7 x 42.3 cm)
Collection Object Type
Painting
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest, 1981
Accession Number
86.1816

Staatliches Museum Saarbrücken, Germany, 1930-1937 (confiscated and deaccessioned, sold by Karl Buchholz, Berlin, by 1939)
Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, by 1939 [acquired from Karl Buchholz]
Herman Shulman, Stamford, Connecticut
Jeffrey H. Loria & Co., New York (from the Shulman estate), to 31 March 1972
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York and Washington, DC, 31 March 1972-31 August 1981
Estate of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1981-1986
Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest, 1981
[STÄDTISCHES MUSEUM FÜR KUNST UND KUNSTGEWERBE?, HALLE, Germany, n.d.]
[BUCHHOLZ GALLERY, New York, n.d.]
INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART, Boston. "Contemporary German Art," 2 November - 9 December, 1939, no. 13 (lent by Buchholz Gallery, listed incorrectly as formerly in Städtisches Museum, Halle).

Signature
LL
Label Marks

Stamp, verso: Staatliches Museum Saarbrucken, Inv. Nr. 606

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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