T. Lux Feininger

Catboat "Fat Cat I"

Repro: old photo

1951, in New York, 105 East 24th St.
Oil on canvas
approx. 20 1⁄8 x 23 1⁄8 inches
Inscr. upper right: T. Lux F.

TLF: "Catboat" ('Fat Cat I'), 1951 [101]

Whereabouts not known
Provenance: 1951 gift to Mr. John van Beuren, Morristown, NJ
TLF: "The illusions may have moral significance – after all, there are good moods as well as bad ones. But even the factors of mood and illusion, provocative of participation in the spectator, benefited from the abstract studies: In the “Cat at Island Heights” for instance, with its definite atmospheric intention of color, the composition is based on underlying forms of sky, water and mast of the boat which are in themselves quite abstract." [T. Lux Feininger, Two Painters - Lyonel and T. Lux Feininger, 1956, Chrysalis IX, see full essay under TEXTS]
Themes: Ships-Sails