T. Lux Feininger

The Passage

The Passage, (The Passage)

Repro: SC

1957, in Cambridge, 6 Bennett St.
Oil on canvas
22 ¹⁄₈ × 24 ¹⁄₈ inches(56 × 61 cm)
Inscr. upper right: T.L.F.; verso centered on the canvas: T. LUX F. 1957 "Passage"

TLF: "The Passage", 1957 [101]; "The Passage", 1957 Cambridge [102, Nr. 273]

Private collection USA
Provenance: 1988 sold from the exhibition at Gallery on the Green, Lexington, MA, to Mrs. Molly Nye, Lexington, MA
TLF: "Pat, Lucas (age 6 mos.) and I had been in Naushon. ... On the way home, the launch ... passed very close to a small schooner yacht... At this moment ... came the disturbing idea that this is what a disastrous collision would look like... [The] vision nailed itself in my memory of imagination and The Passage was the outcome. I count it amongst the milestones on the way to what I call the “new” painting because it combines elements of precise design (the three portraits) with intuitive elements (embodied in the back view of the crouching girl)." [105]

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Themes: Harbor & Sailors, Family & Friends, Ships-Sails