Sonnenblumen. 1929.
Water-tempera.
Not in Vogt. Lower right monogrammed and dated. On firm wove paper. 65.4 x 48 cm (25.7 x 18.8 in), the full sheet.
[AR].
• Flower portrait of great lightness and harmonious unity.
• The artist, who enjoyed experimenting, created fine structures in the color surface with a brush and incorporates the paper background into the depiction.
• In the year it was created, Christian Rohlfs took part in the exhibition "Garten und Blume in der Bildenden Kunst" at the Museum Folkwang in Essen.
• Among the watercolors, depictions of flowers are among the artist's most sought-after works on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).

PROVENANCE: Private collection Austria.
Private collection Southern Germany.

LITERATURE: Villa Grisebach, Berlin, auction 146, Kunst des 19./20. Jahrhunderts, June 9, 2007, lot 261 (with color illu.).
Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Expressionisten. Insbesondere die Maler der Brücke, catalog 79, Zürich 2010, cat. no. 103 (with color illu. p. 159).