Longueil, Normandie by Lyonel Feininger
Art Institute of Chicago

Longueil, Normandie

Lyonel Feininger · October 1909

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Eugen Buchthal, Berlin (1878–1954) by April 1928–at least May 4, 1938 [Berlin 1928 and letters from Jörn Grabowski, Zentralarchiv Staatliche Museum zu Berlin, August 4, 2003, and Florian Karsch, Galerie Nierendorf, July 29, 2003, in curatorial file]. Buchholz Gallery, New York, by 1951 [Cleveland 1951]; sold to Clare Hoover, New York and San Francisco, June 15, 1955–1988 [photocopy of receipt in curatorial file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1998.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Berlin, Secession Ausstellungshaus, XX Austellung der Berliner Secession, Spring 1910, no. 52.
  • Paris, Quai d’Orsay, Artistes Indépendants 27e Exposition, April 21–June 13, 1911, no. 2180, as Longeuil (Normandie).
  • Berlin, National Galerie, Ausstellung Neuerer Deutscher Kunst aus Berliner Privatbesitz, April 1928, p. 17, cat. 7.
  • Berlin, National Galerie, Lyonel Feininger, September 19, 1931–January 1932, no. 8.
  • Exhibition of Twentieth Century (Banned) German Art, June 1939–at least mid-1940; this was a condensed and amended version of Exhibition of Twentieth Century German Art, July–August 1938, New Burlington Galleries, London, and was assembled by that exhibition’s organizing committee; traveled to Milwaukee Institute of Arts, June 1–25, 1939; Northampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art, October 6–25, 1939; Kansas City, Mo., William Rockhill Gallery, November 1939; Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, December 1–22, 1939; Portland, Ore., Portland Art Museum, January 3–25, 1940; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, February 6–26, 1940; Dayton, Ohio, Museum of Fine Arts, March, 1940; and possibly other locations throughout the United States, n.p., no. 12., as Longeuil, Village in Normandy.
  • New York, Buchholz Gallery, Early Work by Contemporary Artists, November14– December 4, 1943, n.p., no. 12, as Longeuil (Normandy), 1909.
  • New York, Buchholz Gallery, ’The Blue Four’: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee, October 31–November 25, 1944, n.p., no. 1, as Longeuil, 1909.
  • New York, Museum of Modern Art, Modern Art in Your Life, 1949.
  • Minneapolis, Minnesota, University Art Gallery, German Expressionism in Art: Painting, Sculpture, Prints, 1905–1935, October 23–November 27, 1951, no. 23, as Longeuil Normandie, 1915.
  • Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, The Work of Lyonel Feininger, November 2– December 9, 1952, p. 16, no. 2, (n.p.), plate I (ill.).
  • New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, Lyonel Feininger, March 18–April 12, 1952, n.p., no. 1.

Literature

Published references

  • Hans Hess, Lyonel Feininger (New York, 1961), p. 252 (ill.), fig. 48.
  • Florens Deuchler, Lyonel Feininger: Sein Weg zum Bauhaus Meister (1996), p.196.
  • Stephanie D’Alessandro, Museum Studies 28, no. 2, “Portfolio: Lyonel Feininger,” p. 89 (ill.).

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