Lot 362 
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Kanal, 1921.
Watercolor and ink pen
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 33,900 Sold:
€ 55,880 / $ 63,144 (incl. surcharge)
Kanal. 1921.
Watercolor and ink pen.
Lower left signed and dated. Titled on the reverse. On paper. 60.5 x 47.5 cm (23.8 x 18.7 in), the full sheet. [JS].
• Masterly depicted impression of a summer lamndscape.
• Fascinating example of Schmidt-Rottluff's one-off combination of radiant colors annd clear forms.
• Watercolors occupy a key position in Schmidt-Rottluff's œuvre: From the years of the "Brücke" until the end of his career in the 1970s, watercolors always played an important role.
• Made during Schmidt-Rottluff's second summer stay in Jershöft, where the "Brücke" artist spent the summer months until 1931.
The watercolor is documented in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Rudolf Hoffmann, Hamburg.
Private collection Hamburg (presumably acquired from the above).
EXHIBITION: Karl schmidt-Rottluff. Aquarelle, Farbstift- und Tuschpinselblätter. Ausstellung zum 85. Geburtstag, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Graphische Sammlung, October 11 - December 7, 1969, cat. no. 18 (with illu., color plate, p. 39).
"[..] The indescribable blue of the air is a tremendous refreshment and the clearly contrasting colors - maybe the colors forund here are less grave than the Oldenburg ones - but they are just as steely and without ambiguity."
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff about Jershöft in a letter to Ernst Beyersdorff from June 22, 1922, quoted from: Christiane Remm, Karl schmidt-Rottluff. Die Aquarelle, p. 34.
Watercolor and ink pen.
Lower left signed and dated. Titled on the reverse. On paper. 60.5 x 47.5 cm (23.8 x 18.7 in), the full sheet. [JS].
• Masterly depicted impression of a summer lamndscape.
• Fascinating example of Schmidt-Rottluff's one-off combination of radiant colors annd clear forms.
• Watercolors occupy a key position in Schmidt-Rottluff's œuvre: From the years of the "Brücke" until the end of his career in the 1970s, watercolors always played an important role.
• Made during Schmidt-Rottluff's second summer stay in Jershöft, where the "Brücke" artist spent the summer months until 1931.
The watercolor is documented in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Rudolf Hoffmann, Hamburg.
Private collection Hamburg (presumably acquired from the above).
EXHIBITION: Karl schmidt-Rottluff. Aquarelle, Farbstift- und Tuschpinselblätter. Ausstellung zum 85. Geburtstag, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Graphische Sammlung, October 11 - December 7, 1969, cat. no. 18 (with illu., color plate, p. 39).
"[..] The indescribable blue of the air is a tremendous refreshment and the clearly contrasting colors - maybe the colors forund here are less grave than the Oldenburg ones - but they are just as steely and without ambiguity."
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff about Jershöft in a letter to Ernst Beyersdorff from June 22, 1922, quoted from: Christiane Remm, Karl schmidt-Rottluff. Die Aquarelle, p. 34.
362
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Kanal, 1921.
Watercolor and ink pen
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 33,900 Sold:
€ 55,880 / $ 63,144 (incl. surcharge)
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