T. Lux Feininger

Group of Shipping in the Rain

Repro: RK

1945, in New York, 105 East 24th St.
Oil on canvas
23 ¹⁄₄ × 20 ¹⁄₄ inches(59 × 51 ¹⁄₂ cm)
Inscr. upper left: Lux; verso discarded painting "The Cutty Sark", 1934-35, centered on the canvas on a light brown field: T. LUX 1945 Group of Shipping in the Rain

TLF: "Group of Shipping in the Rain", 1945 [101]; Group of Shipping in the Rain, 1945-46. My first painting after the Army-discharge [102, Nr. 401]

Private collection Germany
Provenance: 2009 studio sale
TLF: "'Group of Shipping in the Rain' illustrates a memory from Norway. Fishermen have landed and are selling fish. A hazy battleship in the mist suggest war time. On the backside is a painting showing a couple in front of sailing ships, this was painted in Germany and overpainted with the date."* [104, G. Bruhn, December 12, 2009]

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Themes: Harbor & Sailors, Ships-Sails