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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1986.341
People
Lyonel Feininger, American (New York, NY 1871 - 1956 New York, NY)
Title
The Timid Pirate
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1907
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221540

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink, colored crayon, gouache, and graphite traces on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
24.8 x 24 cm (9 3/4 x 9 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: recto l.c., black ink, in artist's hand: MITTWOCH D. 13.FEB.07
  • inscription: recto l.c., blue ink, in artist's hand: Sketches for a comic serial: "The Timid Pirate"

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of T. Lux Feininger
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year
1986
Object Number
1986.341
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Dr. Ulrich Luckhardt, ed., Lyonel Feininger. Menschenbilder. Eine unbekannte Welt, exh. cat., Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg, 2003), p. 55/ cat. 44

Exhibition History

  • Lyonel Feininger in Germany: 1887-1937, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/10/1996 - 05/12/1996
  • Lyonel Feininger. Menschenbilder. Eine unbekannte Welt, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, 10/24/2003 - 02/01/2004

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

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