The Gate

Prints and Drawings

1911

Lyonel Feininger
American, 1871-1956

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Lyonel Feininger
Title: The Gate
Place: United States (Object made in)
Date: 1911
Medium: Pen and black ink on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower left, in ink: "Feininger"; inscribed recto, lower center, in ink: "The Gate"; recto, lower right, in ink: "Saturday, Nov. 4, 1911"
Dimensions: 313 × 253 mm (comp.); 375 × 296 mm (sheet)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Dr. Eugene A. Solow, Albert Kunstadter Family Foundation, and Harold Joachim Purchase Fund
Reference Number: 1972.25
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Leona Prasse, Lyonel Feininger: A Definitive Catalogue of his Graphic Work: Etchings, Lithographs, Woodcuts (Cleveland, 1972), p. 84 (ill.).

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.

Julia Feininger (neé Lilienfeld) (died 1970), by 1944 [New York 1944]. Sold by Eugene V. Thaw, New York, to the Art Institute, 1972.

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