T. Lux Feininger

The Fruit Drink Stand

Repro: press clipping

1947, in New York, 105 East 24th St.
Oil on canvas
Size not known
Inscr. not known

Whereabouts not known, possibly destroyed
Provenance: Newspaper article "The Washington Post", November 13, 1949
TLF: This painting has "figures in them, ... girls – ... [painted in] those troubled times of „rehabilitation“ and newly married life as a civilian. The sight of a female body in blue jeans was highly erotically acting on me. I used to feel very guilty about this and still do, so many years later. …
„Fruit Drink Stand“ was reproduced in a Washington D.C. paper at the time of my small exhibitons at the U.N. Club in 1949. Jeanne had admired this picture; Pat hated it and destroyed it. The sense of guilt thus introduced points at an existential conflict known to all married painters, who are perhaps only partially aware of it. Its outstanding symptoms are claims of the artist’s TIME being made on him. Demands for company when the issue is or ought to be privacy.“ [112]

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Themes: NYC-Shops, NYC-People