Sale: 459 / Modern Art I, Dec. 09. 2017 in Munich Lot 628

 

628
Emil Nolde
Schauender, 1931/ 1935.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 43,200
Sold:
€ 93,750 / $ 101,250

(incl. surcharge)
Schauender. 1931 / 1935.
India ink drawing and Watercolor.
Lower right signed. Titled on backing board by a hand other than that of the artist. On firm Japon. 22.3 x 13.6 cm (8.7 x 5.3 in) , the full sheet. Backing board: 27,3 x 18,5 cm ( 10,7 x 7,2 in).

From the important period of the so-called Fantasies (1931-1935).
With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr. Manfred Reuther issued on 27 October 2017.

PROVENANCE: Collection Emil Frey, Mannheim (since in family ownership).

EXHIBITION: Emil Nolde. Aquarelle aus den Jahren 1894-1956, Kunstverein Hamburg, 11 February - 27 March 1967, no. 81/ Kunstverein Frankfurt a.M., 8 April - 27 May 1967.
Idee und Wirklichkeit - Handzeichnungen und Aquarelle des 20. Jahrhunderts aus Privatbesitz, Satädtische Kunstsammlung Ludwigshafen a.Rh., 11 October - 1 November 1970, no.148.
Emil Nolde - Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen und Druckgrafik, Kunsthalle Cologne 1973, cat. no. 81 (illu. 47).
Sammlung eines Kielers, Kunsthalle Kiel, 3 February - 3 March 1974, no.141.
Emil Nolde, Beethovenhaus Villingen-Schwenningen, 18 May - 5 June 1974, no. 46.
Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung F., Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern 15 February - 14 March 1976, cat. no. 262.

LITERATURE: Heinz Fuchs, Gaben des Augenblicks, vierundvierzig unveröffentlichte Zeichnungen und Aquarelle aus der Sammlung Frey, Heidelberger Kunstverein 1964, p. 22 (illu.).
"The watercolors are particularly beautiful, I reached a point I had never reached before"
Emild Nolde to Hans Fehr, 1932

After he had returned from his South Seas journey Nolde made some of his most important works, some from memory and others on basis of the large number of sketches he had made during his travels. Watercolor portraits of natives from the South Seas made a major contribution to the artist’s accomplishments with these exotic subjects, which would occupy an outstanding position in his oeuvre of paintings. However, his impressions of the long journey through Russia also left traces in Nolde’s work. The etching "Sibirische Gutsherren" from 1918 has almost the same motif as this watercolor. Nolde loved the three-quarter profile and used it for many his portraits. The polychrome conception is based on an artistic freedom that Nolde had acquired in those years and which would remain decisive for his entire later period of creation. [KD]



628
Emil Nolde
Schauender, 1931/ 1935.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 43,200
Sold:
€ 93,750 / $ 101,250

(incl. surcharge)