T. Lux Feininger

Still Life with blue-and-white Blanket and Masks

Still-Life with blue-and-white Blanket and Masks

Repro: SC

1932, in Dessau
Oil on canvas
39 ³⁄₈ × 29 ¹⁄₂ inches(100 × 75 cm)
Inscr. lower left: LUX; verso centered on the canvas: T. LUX (F.) [later stencil signature]

TLF: "Still-Life with blue-and-white blanket, masks", 1932 [101]. Luckhardt 52: Stillleben mit blau-weißem Tuch und Masken [108]

Private collection USA
Provenance: 1937 – 1989 custody Hermann Klumpp in Quedlinburg; 1990 restitution to the artist [106, pos. 1.]; 2011 estate of the artist
TLF: "[In] Still life with Masks of 1932 ... I had explored the mysteries of light and shade with results pleasing to myself but rating me my father’s comment that in this I “had lost my virginity”. He had been charitable enough to add that it was probably inevitable." [105]

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Themes: Bauhaus, Bauhaus-Stage