T. Lux Feininger

La Garce

   

La Garce
La Garce Repro: SC
  • 1935, March, in Berlin-Siemensstadt
  • Oil on canvas
  • 26 × 20 18 inches(66 × 51 cm)

  • Inscr. lower right: LUX; verso on the upper stretcher frame: Th. LUX la garce mars 35

    TLF: "La Garce [The Hussy]", 1935 [201]

    Private collection USA
    Provenance: 2011 estate of the artist

  • TLF: "[Painted] in Moritz and Eva Noack's apartment in Siemensstadt, which I shared with Werner Jackson in the spring of 1935." [201]

    TLF: "My first picture in Siemensstadt was again an “ideal woman”... although ... the “Skipper’s Daughter” in Paris had been cosmopolitan; my Berlin one definitely represents Germany, my Germany. She is a sturdy Dienstmädchen as strong as an ox ... in the middle of spring-cleaning. No sooner had I settled at my new address in the Jungfernheideweg than the well-remembered Thursday morning concert came through the open back windows, of carpets being beaten by a horde of females..., on the day set aside for this by the Polizei – and I had only to look out, and there was... my heroine, such as I have portrayed her in La Garce. The French title imposed itself as a reminder, not to get sentimental over the lost paradise of childhood memories." [205]

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  • Themes:  Literature & Phantasies

Exhibitions

Theodore Lux - Paintings and Watercolors. 1962 Putney, VT

Literature

Welten-Segler - T. Lux Feininger zum 100. Geburtstag, Werke 1929-1942. Ulrich Luckhardt [Hg./ed.], Peter Thurmann [Hg./ed.], Wolfgang Büche, Dagmar Lott-Reschke 2010 Köln, S./p. 144., Luckhardt 95

Lagerbuch Ölgemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen. 1935 Berlin, S./p. 220, Nr. 1258

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