T. Lux Feininger

In a Tropical Garden

Repro: SC/art-archives.net

1958, in Cambridge, 6 Holly Ave.
Oil on canvas
28 ³⁄₈ × 20 ¹⁄₈ inches(72 × 51 cm)
Inscr. lower right: L., vertical: L; verso discarded cubist snake painting, centered on the canvas on a white field: T. LUX F. 1958 [later stencil signature]

TLF: "In A Tropical Garden", 1958 [101]

Private collection Germany
Provenance: 2011 estate of the artist
TLF: "[Finally I got started in our dream house, No. 6, Holly Avenue.] I am translated to the tropics – I am in a garden – I know even the name of the owner – he even has a daughter – well, that’s enough: here is the painting – mostly triangles.... No, they are not leaves... – we are looking at oxide of chromium, cadmium yellow, Mars brown, Venetian red – pigments is what we are looking at; patterns, too ... This (roughly) is the story of my discovery of the inter-relationship of various aspects of my craft: design and content." [105]
Themes: Geometricals, Fauna & Flora