T. Lux Feininger

African Landscape VII. Topi

Repro: SC

1963, in Cambridge, 6 Holly Ave.
Oil on canvas
20 ¹⁄₈ × 24 ¹⁄₈ inches(51 × 61 cm)
Inscr. lower right: L F; verso centered on back panel: T. LUX Feininger 1963 "African Landscape VII" (topi)

TLF: "African Landscape VII" (topi), 1963 [101]; African Landscape, '62 [sic] Cambridge [102, Nr. 383]

Kulturstiftung Sachsen-Anhalt, Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle (Saale), Inv. Nr. MOI02440
Provenance: 2006 studio sale to Frau Ilsemarie Psaar, St. Goar; 2015 in accordance with the will bequeathed to Kunstmuseum Moritzburg
TLF: "In the course of the next few years, I painted several “African Landscapes”, a total of eight compositions. The first one ... is one of the early pictures wherein the “snake” has become an “animal” - another way of saying that “herpetological cubism” had become “animal cubism”, until in the late 1960s it made way, first, for “figure cubism” and lastly ceased to be any kind of –ism. ...
These compositions are amongst my strongest color work. They are populated by essentially peaceful, i.e. non-predatory, creatures... I take it that this may have to do with my getting over the worst of my anger at a hypocritical society misled by venal scientists..." [105]
Themes: Fauna & Flora