About This Artwork
Lyonel Feininger
American, 1871-1956
The Gate1911
Pen and black ink on cream laid paper
313 x 253 mm (comp.); 375 x 296 mm (sheet)
Signed recto, lower left, in ink: "Feininger"; inscribed recto, lower center, in ink: "The Gate"; recto, lower right, in ink: "Saturday, Nov. 4, 1911"
Restricted gift of Dr. Eugene A. Solow, Albert Kunstadter Family Foundation, and Harold Joachim Purchase Fund, 1972.25
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, "Lyonel Feininger/Marsden Hartley," 1944.
Hamburger Kunsthalle, "Lyonel Feininger. Die Zeichnungen und Aquarelle," January 23-April 6, 1998, cat. 36; also traveled to Germany, the Kunsthalle, Tübingen, April 18-June 8, 1998.
The Art Institute of Chicago, February 21-October 31, 1992.
Publication History
Leona Prasse, Lyonel Feininger: A Definitive Catalogue of his Graphic Work: Etchings, Lithographs, Woodcuts (Cleveland, 1972), p. 84 (ill.).
Ownership History
Julia Feininger (neé Lilienfeld) (died 1970), by 1944 [New York 1944]. Sold by Eugene V. Thaw, New York, to the Art Institute, 1972.