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  EMIL NOLDE Abendliche Marschlandschaft mit Heudiemen , Um 1935/1940. Aquarell Object description Evening marshland with hay thongs  .  Around 1935/1940. Watercolor. Signed lower right.  On Japan.  34.2 x 47.3 cm (13.4 x 18.6 in), the full sheet. With a photo expertise from Dr.  Manfred Reuther, Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation, dated February 21, 2009. PROVENANCE: Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation (until 1966). Großhennig Gallery, Düsseldorf. Art dealer Alfred Lochte & Co., Hamburg (around 1979-1975). Private collection, Hamburg. Private collection South Germany. "I longed for high, open air, for austere, strong beauty, as the west coast, with its wide span of the sky and the clouds over marshland and water, gives it so lavishly, especially in the rough seasons." Emil Nolde, quoted from: Manfred Reuther, Landscapes, Gardens and Seas - Nolde's Creation from Color, p. 125ff, in: A. Husslein-Arco / S.  Koja, Emil Nolde.  In glow and co...

  EMIL NOLDE Abendmeer mit blauem Dampfer , 1945/1948. Aquarell Object description Evening sea with blue steamer  .  1945/1948. Watercolor and body paint. Signed lower right.  On Japan.  16.5 x 20 cm (6.4 x 7.8 in), the full sheet. With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr.  Manfred Reuther, Klockries, May 29, 2018. The watercolor is listed in the Reuther archive under the number "Nolde A - 86/2018". PROVENANCE: Private collection, Hessen. essay Emil Nolde often made his strongest statement in the small-format watercolors.  The sea is the preferred theme for Nolde as a landscape inspiration, although for him it is not the water, but the sky that is the event.  The horizon and the sea merge in a single glowing carpet of color, which determines the expression of the composition, accentuated by the small dark blue steamer.  Here, too, Nolde remains true to his once-found composition scheme, which is entirely determined by the expressiveness of the co...

 Emil Nolde  Sonnenblumen, Um 1930.  Aquarell Object description Sunflowers   .   Around 1930. Watercolor. Signed lower right.   On Japan.   45.5 x 34.3 cm (17.9 x 13.5 in), the full sheet. With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr.   Manfred Reuther, dated August 14, 2013. The work is registered in the Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation, Seebüll. PROVENANCE: Private collection (acquired directly from the artist). Private collection, Berlin (by inheritance from the aforementioned). EXHIBITION: Watercolors from Bielefeld's private collection, Städtisches Kunsthaus Bielefeld, May 28 - June 29, 1967, no. 35, exhibition cat.   with ill. p. 19. essay An important component in Emil Nolde's artistic oeuvre are the watercolors with flowers, which convey a lot of what he wanted in their suggestive color effect.   Beyond all the beauty of form, it is above all the color in these watercolors that determines the tenor of the work.   The often described t...

 Emil Nolde  Schleichender Panther, 1923-24.  Aquarell Object description Creeping panther   .   1923/24. Watercolor. Signed lower left.   With a dedication by Emil Nolde to the first owner on the cardboard backing.   On firm Japan.   28 x 34.5 cm (11 x 13.5 in), the full sheet. Impressive, rare animal motif   . With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr.   Manfred Reuther from May 27, 2015. The watercolor is registered in the Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation Seebüll. PROVENANCE: Erna Hanfstaengl, Munich. Private collection South Germany. essay Emil Nolde transforms a rather unusual subject into an almost dramatic scene in his own way.   The panther striding out of the dark has all the secrets that characterize this big cat.   Nolde decides on an unusual composition in which only two thirds of the stretched body of the creeping animal can be seen.   Stepping out of the darkness, which Nolde reproduces here in a shaded blue, is the ...

  EMIL NOLDE Marschlandschaft , Um 1922/25. Aquarell Object description Marshland  .  Around 1922/25. Watercolor. Signed lower right.  On Japan.  36.4 x 50.5 cm (14.3 x 19.8 in), the full sheet. Intense color watercolor with a painting-like effect  . With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr.  Manfred Reuther, Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation, from October 16, 2014. PROVENANCE: Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Berlin. Brain surgeon Prof. Herbert Peiper, Berlin-Charlottenburg. Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia. Emil Hansen was born on August 7, 1867 in the German-Danish border region.  He later adopted the name of his hometown Nolde as his stage name.  After an apprenticeship as a furniture draftsman and wood carver in Flensburg from 1884 to 1888, he worked for various furniture factories in Munich, Karlsruhe and Berlin.  In 1892 Emil Nolde received a position as a teacher for commercial drawing at the trade museum in St. Gallen, which h...

  EMIL NOLDE Insulanerkopf , Um 1918/ 1919. Aquarell Object description Islander head  .  Around 1918/1919 . Watercolor. Signed lower right.  On Van Gelder Zonen drawing paper (with watermark).  40 x 32 cm (15.7 x 12.5 in), size of sheet. With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr.  Manfred Reuther from May 27, 2015. The watercolor is registered in the Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation Seebüll. PROVENANCE: Eduard Walz Kunstantiquariat, Munich. Private collection Southern Germany (acquired directly from aforementioned, since 1936). essay Emil Nolde refused to perfect artistic techniques - this was also the case when he began to familiarize himself with watercolor painting.  He is looking for a way of working that includes chance as an artistic means and thus creates space for the immediate in the painting process.  In his watercolors, Nolde is increasingly inspired by his environment and captures it with spontaneous brushstrokes.  He outlines the motifs...

  EMIL NOLDE Blumenstillleben mit weißen und blauen Blüten , 1935. Aquarell Object description Flower still life with white and blue flowers  .  Around 1935/40. Watercolor. Signed lower right.  On Japan.  45.4 x 33.6 cm (17.8 x 13.2 in), the full sheet. With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr.  Manfred Reuther, Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation Seebüll, from June 17, 2009. PROVENANCE: Private collection, Germany since the 1960s. Private collection. Emil Hansen was born on August 7, 1867 in the German-Danish border region.  He later adopted the name of his hometown Nolde as his stage name.  After an apprenticeship as a furniture draftsman and wood carver in Flensburg from 1884 to 1888, he worked for various furniture factories in Munich, Karlsruhe and Berlin.  In 1892 Emil Nolde received a position as a teacher for commercial drawing at the trade museum in St. Gallen, which he held until 1898.  In those places where primarily landscape watercolo...

  EMIL NOLDE Zinnien und Sonnenblumen , Um 1930. Aquarell Object description Zinnias and Sunflowers  .  Around 1930. Watercolor. Signed lower right.  On Japan.  38 x 26.2 cm (14.9 x 10.3 in), the full sheet. • With intensive internal watercolors. • Floral motif in flaming colors. • Masterful watercolor by the great German expressionist  . With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr.  Manfred Reuther, Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation, dated January 4, 2012, in copy. PROVENANCE: Galerie Thomas, Munich. Private collection Southern Germany (since 1993, acquired directly from the aforementioned) Private collection Southern Germany. LITERATURE: Lempertz Cologne, auction 3.6.1992, lot 343. essay Emil Nolde developed an unprecedented mastery in the technique of watercolor, which rightly made him one of the most important painters of German Expressionism.  The paper works, which emerge quickly one after the other, require meticulous preparation.  Jolant...

  EMIL NOLDE Blumen , 1930. Aquarell Object description Flowers  .  Probably 1930 years. Watercolor. Signed lower right.  On delicate Japan 48 x 34.5 cm (18.8 x 13.5 in), the full sheet. With a photo expertise from Dr.  Manfred Reuther, Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation Emil Hansen was born on August 7, 1867 in the German-Danish border region.  He later adopted the name of his hometown Nolde as his stage name.  After an apprenticeship as a furniture draftsman and wood carver in Flensburg from 1884 to 1888, he worked for various furniture factories in Munich, Karlsruhe and Berlin.  In 1892 Nolde received a position as a teacher for commercial drawing at the trade museum in St. Gallen, which he held until 1898.  With the decision to become a painter, Nolde finally went to Munich, but the academy under Franz von Stuck rejected him.  This was followed by studies at Adolf Hölzel's private painting school in Dachau and, from 1899, at the A...

  EMIL NOLDE Bärtiger Mann und Frau , Ca. 1931/1935. Aquarell und Deckfarbe Object description Bearded man and woman  .  1931/1935. Watercolor and body paint. Signed lower right.  On Japan.  31 x 24.5 cm (12.2 x 9.6 in), the full sheet. With a copy of a photo expertise from Prof. Martin Urban, Seebüll, dated April 15, 1975. PROVENANCE: Nolde Foundation Seebüll. Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. Kornfeld and Klipstein, 155th auction, Bern, June 11-13, 1975. Artes Kunsthaus, Rheda-Wiedenbrück. Private collection, Germany (acquired from aforementioned in 1986). Private collection Schleswig-Holstein (by inheritance from the aforementioned). “My thinking works more slowly than the creative gift.  It is wonderful when figures are born into a picture, often very quickly, and the painter can barely grasp the process. " Emil Nolde, quoted from: Haftmann, Werner: Ungemalte Bilder1938-1945, Cologne 1963. essay Once again, Nolde succeeds in surpassing himself and his mastery i...

  EMIL NOLDE Das Paar, Phantasien , 1931. Aquarell Object description The couple, fantasies  .  Around 1931/1935. Watercolor and pen and ink drawing. Signed lower right.  On Japan.  45.5 x 30.3 cm (17.9 x 11.9 in), the full sheet. With a copy of a photo expertise from Prof. Dr.  Martin Urban, Ada and Emil Nolde Seebüll Foundation, dated October 7, 1993 by Prof. Dr.  Manfred Reuther, director of the foundation, was confirmed on April 4, 2013. PROVENANCE: Private collection, Ulm (around 1935). Private collection, Florida. Galerie Thomas, Munich. Private collection, USA (since 2006). Emil Hansen was born on August 7, 1867 in the German-Danish border region.  He later adopted the name of his hometown Nolde as his stage name.  After an apprenticeship as a furniture draftsman and wood carver in Flensburg from 1884 to 1888, he worked for various furniture factories in Munich, Karlsruhe and Berlin.  In 1892 Emil Nolde received a position as a te...

  EMIL NOLDE Mädchen mit blauem Haar , Um 1920. Aquarell Object description Girl with blue hair  .  Around 1920. Watercolor. Signed lower right.  On Japan.  44.8 x 34.3 cm (17.6 x 13.5 in), size of sheet. [SM]. • The young woman grew out of the free flow of colors without any preliminary drawings or graphic elements. • With the immediacy of the expression, Nolde holds on to his counterpart with an inimitable intensity. • Privately owned for 70 years  . With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr.  Manfred Reuther, Klockries, dated May 7, 2021. The work is registered in his archive under the number "Nolde A - 209/2021". PROVENANCE: Private collection, Switzerland (since the 1950s). Private collection, Switzerland (by inheritance from the aforementioned). "The watercolors, the final measure of [Nolde's] directness and spontaneity, are among the best in Modern art. [Nolde] always felt the painter should paint first and think afterward," Bernard S. Myers, The Ger...

  Emil Nolde  Marschlandschaft, ca. 1935 Aquarell Object description Marshland  .  Around 1935. Watercolor. Barely legible signed lower right.  On fine Japan.  25 x 14.7 cm (9.8 x 5.7 in), the full sheet.  [CH]. • Refined connection between delicate drawing and two-dimensional, expressive play of colors. • Atmospheric sky composition of fire red and night blue. • Extraordinary format  . With a written confirmation from Prof. Dr.  Martin Urban, then director of the Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation, dated September 8, 1990 (copy).  The work is registered in the archive of the Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation. PROVENANCE: Private collection South Germany. essay As early as 1916, the Nolde couple moved from the island of Alsen to the sea around Utenwarf on the Ruttebüller Tief.  About ten years later they settled down nearby, in Seebüll, in the almost deserted expanse of the Gotteskoog, the largest Koog in the North Friesland ...

  EMIL NOLDE Marschlandschaft mit Fischerbooten , Um 1920. Aquarell Object description Marshland with fishing boats  .  Around 1920. Watercolor and Indian ink. Signed lower left.  On fine Japan.  35.2 x 47.7 cm (13.8 x 18.7 in), the full sheet. With an expertise from Dr.  Martin Urban, Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation, dated November 19, 1996 (copy). With a duplicate by Prof. Dr.  Manfred Reuther dated October 30, 2012. PROVENANCE: Otto Brill, Vienna (with the collector's stamp, Lugt 2005a). Henry Roland, London. Anthony Roland, London. Private collection, Northern Germany. Private collection, Switzerland. Private collection, Berlin. EXHIBITION: The Roland Collection, York, Newcastle, Leicester, Brighton, 1950 / Southhampton 1952 / Manchester and Leeds 1962 / Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 1968 / Bristol 1969 / Folkestone 1975 / Edinburgh 1976 / Works from the Roland Collection, London, Courtauld Institute of Art Galleries, 1979, No. 33. Picture o...

  EMIL NOLDE Sonnenblumen, rote und blaue Blüten , Ca. 1930/40. Aquarell und Gouache Object description Sunflowers, red and blue flowers  .  1930 / 40s. Watercolor and gouache. Signed lower right.  On firm laid paper.  45.5 x 35.5 cm (17.9 x 13.9 in). With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr.  Manfred Reuther dated September 9, 2018. The watercolor is registered in the Reuther archive under the number "Nolde A - 96/2018". PROVENANCE: Private collection, Rhineland. Private collection in southern Germany (inherited from the aforementioned). "Yellow can paint happiness and also pain. There is fire red, blood red and rose red. There is silver blue, sky blue and storm blue. Each color has its own soul, happy or repulsive and stimulating." Emil Nolde, quoted from: Martin Urban, Emil Nolde - Landscapes.  Watercolors and drawings, Cologne 2002, p. 16. essay In Emil Nolde's painterly oeuvre, the watercolors can not only be seen as a supplement to the paintings....

  EMIL NOLDE Marschlandschaft , Ca. 1920/1925. Aquarell Object description Marshland  .  1920/1925. Watercolor. Signed lower right.  On Japan.  34.2 x 48 cm (13.4 x 18.8 in), the full sheet. With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr.  Manfred Reuther, former director of the Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation, Klockries, dated May 2, 2018. The work is registered in his archive under the number "Nolde A - 83/2018". PROVENANCE: Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf. Collection Dr.  Hugo and Madeleine Simons, Rhineland, later Montreal, Canada (acquired from aforementioned between 1926 and 1933, since then in family ownership). EXHIBITION: The Simons Collection, Goethe House, Montreal 1964. "I longed for high, open air, for austere, strong beauty, as the west coast with its wide span of the sky and the clouds over marshland and water gives it so lavishly, especially in the rough seasons." Emil Nolde (quoted from: Manfred Reuther, Landscapes, Gardens and Meere - Nolde's Creativit...