Provenance:
Andreas Feininger, New York (by descent)
Serge Sabarsky Gallery, New York
Private collection, New York



Exhibitions
Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Bauhaus Dessau: J. Albers, L. Feininger, W. Kandinsky, P. Klee, O. Schlemmer, April 20–May 9, 1929, no. 36, p. 6.

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Bauhaus 1919-1928, December 7, 1938– January 30, p. 180 (b/w repr.).

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Lyonel Feininger: Drawings and Watercolors, September–October 1968, no. 5, p. 8.

New York, Serge Sabarsky Gallery, Lyonel Feininger: Drawings and Watercolors, November 1979, no. 18, pp. 52, 53 (color repr.).

Paris, Musée-Galerie de la Seita, Lyonel Feininger: OEuvres sur papier, March 18 – May 14, 1994, (color repr.).

New York, Moeller Fine Art, Lyonel Feininger: Precision of Fantasy, January 24 – March 14, 2014.



Literature:
S. Sabarsky, Lyonel Feininger: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, Munich, 1991, no. 21 (color repr.).



The watercolor depicts a village street in Mellingen near Weimar, Germany. It was made after nature studies from May 1913. It relates to the painting Scheunen bei Nacht (Barns at Night), 1930 (Moeller 342).