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LYONEL FEININGER
The Privateer (Der Reeder)
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Etching on cream wove etching paper, 1911-12. 140x220 mm; 5
1
/
2
x8
3
/
4
inches, full margins.
One of approximately only 6 known early proofs from Prasse’s edition, an early impression
before the cleaning of the plate and the heavy oxidation along the lower edge of the plate,
aside from the published edition of 50 printed in the early 1950s from Prasse’s edition B.
Signed, titled and dated “1911” in pencil, lower margin.With the artist’s estate ink stamp
and work number “G E No. 48” in pencil, lower right.A brilliant, richly-inked impression
of this extremely scarce, early proof, with very crisp, inky plate edges. Prasse E 41.
[6,000/9,000]
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