T. Lux Feininger

Two Nudes I

Repro: A22

1963, in Cambridge, 22 Arlington St.
Oil on canvas
34 × 19 ⁵⁄₈ inches(86 × 50 cm)
Inscr. lower left: L

TLF: "Two Nudes I", 1963, destroyed [101]

Destroyed by the artist
Provenance: Photograph of the painting from the estate of the artist, from the file "paintings destroyed"
TLF: "My “stencil painting” evolved out of an accidental discovery... I wished to make use of this fact for a figure composition based on a drawing of a nude I had made in my art class. ... [After a series of drawings on paper] I drew the two partially overlapping figures on my canvas free-hand. As I did so, color ideas came to me and before the drawing was finished my choice of pigments was made. This process yielded the painting Two Nudes and became the pioneer of the technique." [105]
Themes: Literature & Phantasies