Provenance:
Marlborough Fine Art, London
Serge Sabarsky Gallery, New York
Private collection, New York


Exhibitions:
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Lyonel Feininger: Drawings and Watercolors, September–October 1968, no. 20, p. 14 (color repr.).

Berlin, Abguß-Sammlungen Antiker Plastik, Lyonel Feininger: Drawings, Watercolors, and Graphic Works / Lyonel Feininger: Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Grafiken (organized by Serge Sabarsky), October 30–December 19, 1993, n.p. (color repr.), traveled to: Paris, Musée-Galerie de la Seita, Lyonel Feininger: Oeuvres sur papier, March 18–May 14, 1994.

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. 32 (color repr.).


The watercolor was executed on September 3, 1931, while Lyonel Feininger was on summer vacation in Deep on the Baltic Sea. It depicts Quimper in Brittany and is made after a nature study from July 5, 1931. In June and July Feininger went to Brittany after he had visited his old friend the sculptor and engraver Theodore Spicer-Simson (1871 – 1959) in Bourron.