NOLDE, EMIL1867 Nolde - 1956 Seebüll


Title: Stilles Meer.
Technique: Watercolour on Japan.
Measurement: 34 x 47,5cm.
Notation: Signed lower right: Nolde.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame.


Enclosed with this work a confirmation of authenticity from Wilhelm Grosshennig, Düsseldorf, dated 14th December 1979, and a confirmation from the Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation. It is registered there under the number Fr.A.659 and will be included in a future catalogue raisonné of the watercolours and drawings.

Provenance:
- Emil Nolde-Stiftung, Seebüll
- Private collection
- Galerie Wilhelm Grosshennig, Düsseldorf
- Private collection Hamburg (since 1979)
- Private collection Austria (by inheritance)

- Wonderful play with perspective through the dominant use of the colour blue
- The fusion of sea and sky shows Nolde's proximity to abstraction
- Nolde's depictions of the North German sea are among the artist's most sought-after motifs.