T. Lux Feininger

Anaconda

Repro: CF

1959, in Cambridge, 6 Holly Ave.
Oil on canvas
25 × 20 ¹⁄₈ inches(63 ¹⁄₂ × 51 cm)
Inscr. upper left: L.; verso centered on the canvas: 19 T.LUX F. '59 - Anaconda -

TLF: "Anaconda", 1959 [101]

Private collection USA
Provenance: 2011 estate of the artist
TLF: "my eye fell on a big anaconda tightly coiled around a dead tree. ... The sunshine shining into the cage created the rainbow effect [on its glass walls]. The richly saturated colors of the big snake – olive green, golden ochre on the belly, and spotted with large, circular black markings – reflected the blue sky here and there. Altogether an effect easier painted than described. In my case, I painted forthwith what I had seen, helped by a few sketches; but as a painter’s experience, it had been an eye-opening occasion and its influence on my further progress was never forgotten again. ... [In] a grand showing of “herpetological cubism”..., this Anaconda will be an important work on it." [105]

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Themes: Geometricals, Fauna & Flora