T. Lux Feininger

Back of Things

   

Back of Things
Back of Things Repro: art-archives.net
  • 1939, September, in New York
  • Oil on canvas
  • 23 18 × 28 inches(58 12 × 71 cm)

  • Inscr. lower right on pillar base: SEPT 1st LUX, lower right: MORT AUX VACHE; verso centered on the canvas: THEODORE LUX AUG.-SEP. 1939 - BACK OF THINGS -

    TLF: "Back of Things", 1939 [201]; "Back of Things", 1939 New York [202, Nr. 369]

    Private collection USA
    Provenienz: 2004 studio sale to Mr. Ulrich W. Hiesinger, Philadelphia, PA

  • TLF: "The idea of a state of soul beyond good or bad is somehow at the bottom of several compositions I painted in the next few years. I call them “dream paintings” because I am not a surrealist. The intention (if they have one) is that of a life-preserver." [205]

    TLF: "The painting I call Back of Things ... shows the aggression of the Dark Powers in a more universal, less specific way. It too is based on a dream, but of three years earlier. Two witches are poised to pounce on an “everyday” reveller who has strayed behind the scenes, “back of things”. He is going to pay dearly for it. – I was just signing this composition when Lincoln Kirstein came in. ... His first idea was, that this scene ... represented the ]German] attack on Poland [September 1, 1939], but I had been totally unconscious of any such intention, although I could see at once how appropriate has interpretation was." [205]

  • Themes:  Literature & Phantasies
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