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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 7, 2025 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Day Sale | 262 | $****** - ****** | Sonnenblumen mit Pfingstrosen |
Works on Paper
35.7 x 47.3 cm (14.06 x 18.62 in)
Watercolor
Signed in the lower right
From a collection in North Rhine-Westphalia. “All the flowers blossomed for her delight and mine, and the sun was shining brightly over the garden.” Emil Nolde, quoted from: Manfred Reuter, “Grüße von unserem schönen Garten” - Emil Noldes Gärten und seine Blumenbilder, in: Manfred Reuter, Emil Nolde. Mein Garten voller Blumen , Seebüll 2010, p. 23. Called up: June 7, 2025 - ca. 17.36 h +/- 20 min.
Emil Nolde
Sonnenblumen mit Pfingstrosen
Um 1930.
Watercolor.
Signed in the lower right. On Japan paper. 35.7 x 47.3 cm (14 x 18.6 in), the full sheet.
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• Iconic Expressionism: Flower arrangements are among the most sought-after subjects in the artist"s oeuvre.
• For Nolde, flowers have a soul, particularly sunflowers with their human physiognomy, which he sees as vehicles for powerful expression.
• Nolde was a master of the watercolor technique: works from the 1930s reveal his fully developed style with spontaneous brushwork
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Accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity issued by Prof. Dr. Manfred Reuther on October 3, 2014.
The Academic Advisory Board of the Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation has confirmed the inclusion of the work in a future catalogue raisonné of watercolors and drawings by Emil Nolde (1867-1956) (reg. no. 3432).
