Live Auction 21774Modern American Art
EDMUND LEWANDOWSKI (1914-1998)
Lot 45

EDMUND LEWANDOWSKI (1914-1998)

Lighthouse Service Station

Closed18 April 2024

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EDMUND LEWANDOWSKI (1914-1998)
Lewandowski, E.
Lighthouse Service Station
signed 'E.D. Lewandowski' (lower right)—signed again (on the reverse)
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paperboard
15 ½ x 21 7/8 in. (39.4 x 55.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1937.

The Downtown Gallery, New York.
Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, acquired from the above, 1938.
Franklin Riehlman Fine Art, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, circa 2005.

Specialist note

According to Valerie Leeds, the sale of the present work to the prestigious Rockefeller collection "was instrumental in convincing Lewandowski that he could sustain a career as an artist." (Edmund Lewandowski: Precisionism and Beyond, exhibition catalogue, Flint, Michigan, 2010, p. 13) Among his earliest successes, Lighthouse Service Station provided a source of inspiration for later works in Lewandowski's career.