T. Lux Feininger

African Landscape VIII. The Coming of the Rains

Repro: SC/art-archives.net

1963, in Cambridge, 6 Holly Ave.
Oil on canvas
21 × 25 inches(53 × 63 ¹⁄₂ cm)
Inscr. lower left: L F; verso centered on the back panel: T. Lux Feininger 1963 "African Landscape No. VIII" (the coming of the rains)

TLF: "African Landscape VIII" ("The Coming of the Rains") (sable antelpes), 1963 [101]. "Afrikanische Landschaft VIII" [109, Nr. 41]

Private collection Germany
Provenance: 2011 estate of the artist
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, Geometricals