Sale: 539 / Modern Art Day Sale, June 10. 2023 in Munich Lot 377

 

377
Emil Nolde
Engel vor Sonnenblumen, Um 1935.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 25,000 / $ 27,000
Sold:
€ 46,990 / $ 50,749

(incl. surcharge)
Engel vor Sonnenblumen. Um 1935.
Watercolor.
Lower right signed. On Japon. 24.5 x 16 cm (9.6 x 6.2 in), the full sheet.
[SM].
• In this watercolor, Nolde united two characteristic themes: the human figure and flowers.
• A particularly personal motif: a figure of an angel from his own collection and the sunflowers from his garden.
• In strong colors
.

Accompanied by a duplicate of the photo expertise issued by Prof. Dr. Martin Urban, Foundation Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde, from May 29, 2001 and a confirmation of this expertise issued by Prof. Dr. Manfred Reuther, Foundation Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde, on August 7, 2006.

PROVENANCE: Private collection (1995)
C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf.
Art dealer Hubertus Melsheimer, Cologne.
Private collection Northern Germany.

LITERATURE: Karl & Faber, Munich, 181st auction, May 28/29, 1991, lot 961.
Grisebach, Berlin, May 26, 1995, lot 24.
Bernhard Fulda, Emil Nolde. Eine deutsche Legende. Der Künstler im Nationalsozialismus. Essay- und Bildband zur Ausst. Neue Galerie im Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (April 12 - September 15, 2019), Munich 2019, p. 192 (color illu.).




377
Emil Nolde
Engel vor Sonnenblumen, Um 1935.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 25,000 / $ 27,000
Sold:
€ 46,990 / $ 50,749

(incl. surcharge)