Emil Nolde - BLUMEN STILLEBEN (STILL LIFE WITH FLOWERS)

 

Emil Nolde
1867 - 1956
BLUMEN STILLEBEN (STILL LIFE WITH FLOWERS)
Signed Nolde. (lower left)
Watercolor on paper
12 7/8 by 18 1/2 in.
32.7 by 47 cm
Executed circa 1950-52 
"Iloved the flowers and their destiny: shooting up, blooming, radiating, glowing, gladdening, drooping, wilting, and ultimately thrown away and dying. Our human destinies are by no means always so logical or so beautiful."
Emil Nolde, Jahre der Kämpfe, Berlin, 1934, p. 228

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