Lyonel Feininger
Arcueil I1907

On view:

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

Artist or Maker: Lyonel Feininger
United States, New York, New York City, also active Germany and France, 1871-1956
Title: Arcueil I
Place Made: United States
Date Made: 1907
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 26 7/8 × 21 in. (68.26 × 53.34 cm)
Credit Line: Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number: M.2005.70.24
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Curatorial Notes: Arcueil I and Village in Thuringia (to the left) reflect Lyonel Feininger’s persistent preoccupation with the geometric language of architecture. The figures in Arcueil I (the title of which refers to the suburb of Paris where the artist lived in 1906–7) appear similar to the towering structures in the painting’s background, with their stretched forms attenuated by tall hats echoed in the chimneys and spires beyond.

Wall label, 2021.
Selected Bibliography: Moeller, Achim. Lyonel Feininger: The Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings. "Die Schläferin (Julia), 1913," no. 122. Moeller Fine Art, 2018. Online catalogue raisonné, http://feiningerproject.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=240.