Mýdchen mit blauem Haar. Ca. 1920 /1925.
Watercolor.
Signed in lower right. On Japon. 46.5 x 35.7 cm (18.3 x 14 in) , size of sheet.
Accompanied by a photo expertise issued by Prof. Dr. Manfred Reuther, Klockries, former director of the Foundation Ada and Emil Nolde, from May 2, 2018. The work is registered in his archive with the number "Nolde A - 82/2018".
PROVENANCE: Galerie Výmel, Dýsseldorf.
Collection Dr. Hugo and Madeleine Simons, Rhineland, later Montreal, Canada (acquired from aforementioned between 1926 and 1933, ever since in possession of the family).
EXHIBITION: Collection Simons, Goethe-House, Montreal 1964.
"What are rules? Whatýs caprice and intemperance? Every true artist creates new values, new beauty and new rules [..]. The new and beautiful that comes into existence is often dismissed as arbitrary and debauched, as it does not bend with the old rules. These are the accusations every genius has to face."
Emil Nolde (quote from: Hans Fehr, Emil Nolde - Ein Buch der Freundschaft, p. 42, 1957)