Sale: 560 / Evening Sale, Dec. 06. 2024 in Munich Lot 124001210

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124001210
Emil Nolde
Calla, Anemonen und Gerbera, Um 1925/1930.
On firm Japan
Estimate:
€ 90,000 - 120,000

 
$ 99,000 - 132,000

Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Calla, Anemonen und Gerbera. Um 1925/1930.
On firm Japan.
Signed in the lower right. 45.5 x 34 cm (17.9 x 13.3 in), the full sheet.

• Nolde's idea of emotionally determined art became manifest in his watercolors.
• Large, full-sheet watercolor in remarkably saturated colors.
• Emil Nolde is regarded as a watercolor virtuoso, making the delicate beauty and the flowers' magnificent the bearer of expression
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Accompanied by a photo expertise issued by Prof. Dr. Manfred Reuther on July 10, 2002 (in copy).

PROVENANCE: Private collection (acquired in the 1920s, family-owned until 2003: Christie's).
Galerie Schwarzer, Düsseldorf.
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia.

LITERATURE: Gestalt und Gestaltung. Das Kunstwerk als Selbstdarstellung des Künstlers, Krefeld 1958, illustrated on p. 129.
Christie's, London, Auktion Impressionist & Modern Works on Paper, February 6, 2003, lot 467.
"I love the flowers' rich colors and their purity. I love the flowers and their destiny: sprouting, blooming, glowing, making us happy, declining, withering and eventually disposed of. Our human fate in many cases is not likewise coherent and beautiful [.]"
Emil Nolde, quoted from Martin Urban, Emil Nolde. Blumen und Tiere. Watercolors and drawings, Cologne 1965, pp. 7-8.

The German expressionist artist Emil Nolde painted his way into the hearts of art lovers with his vibrant flower pictures. Viewers are captivated by the color and power of his works. Nolde himself described painting in watercolors as a personal calling. He painted people, landscapes, animals, and flowers. From the intimate style of his early watercolors, he worked his way to a more liberated, broader, and fluid style that required an in-depth understanding of and response to the properties of the papers and the potential the colors offered. Nolde's love of flowers is rooted in his childhood and accompanied his entire artistic career. The intensity and radiance of the color and the combination of beauty and transience repeatedly inspired the artist, as is also evident in our work. More than any other subject, the flower motif allowed Nolde more freedom to indulge in his color phantasies. They allowed him to explore his ideas of the musicality and absolute effect of color to a point close to abstraction without losing his connection to nature, which always remained a prerequisite for his creativity. Aided by the wet-in-wet technique he used on absorbent paper, he utilized color as a vehicle for emotional qualities that served not to recognize the representational form but to approach his pictorial idea intuitively.



124001210
Emil Nolde
Calla, Anemonen und Gerbera, Um 1925/1930.
On firm Japan
Estimate:
€ 90,000 - 120,000

 
$ 99,000 - 132,000

Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.