Lot 315
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EMIL NOLDE | Bewegtes blaues Meer bei Sonnenuntergang (mit Felsen und Burg) (Raging Blue Sea at Sunset (with Rocks and Fort))

Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 GBP
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Description

  • Emil Nolde
  • Bewegtes blaues Meer bei Sonnenuntergang (mit Felsen und Burg) (Raging Blue Sea at Sunset (with Rocks and Fort))
  • signed Nolde (lower left)
  • watercolour, gouache and pen and ink on paper
  • 17 by 15.5cm., 6 5/8 by 6 1/8 in.
  • Executed circa 1940-45.
signed Nolde (lower left)watercolour on paper

Provenance

Private Collection, Germany (acquired by 1963)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Condition

Executed on thick Japan paper, not laid down and attached to the mount along the upper edge. There are fine lines of stable craquelure in the thicker white pigments in the lower left quadrant. This work is in overall good condition.
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Catalogue Note

Executed between 1940 and 1945, Emil Nolde’s Bewegtes blaues Meer bei Sonnenuntergang (mit Felsen und Burg) is a wonderful example of the artist’s so-called ungemalte Bilder (unpainted images), which he created in secrecy in the seclusion of Seebüll, during the working ban which had been imposed upon him by the Nazis. The name unpainted images refers both to the fact that these works were created despite the artist's working ban as well as the fact that the artist intended to execute the works on a large scale once possible. Works from this group are known for their striking intensity of colour and their small scale, which made them easy to hide. Nolde also worked the sheet of Bewegtes blaues Meer bei Sonnenuntergang (mit Felsen und Burg) in places on the verso, in order to maximise the intensity and depth of the colours.



The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Dr Manfred Reuther.