Submitted by Mal L. Barasch, Nov 18, 2006 11:46

Your article states that Lyonel Feininger was a German artist. Actually, he was born in New York in 1871. He went to Germany in 1887 to study music, subsequently became an artist and returned to the United States in 1937, after he and his wife Julia, who was Jewish, were visited in their apartment by Nazi officials. He worked in New York until he died there in 1956.

You also state that Feininger is known mainly to connoisseurs. Perhaps, but , in adddition to the work you reported on, another of his works, Angler with Blue Fish, was sold at Sotheby's in London in June of this year for over $7,000,000. This would tend to indicate either that there are a fair number of connoisseurs or that at least two of them are not poor!

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