NOLDE, EMIL1867 Nolde - 1956 Seebüll


Title: Abendhimmel über der Marsch.
Date: 1930/35.
Technique: Watercolour on Japan.
Measurement: 35 x 48cm.
Notation: Signed lower right: Nolde.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.


A copy of a photo certificate from Prof. Dr Martin Urban, Emil and Ada Nolde Foundation, Seebüll, dated 11.04.1985, is available for this work.

Provenance:
- Private collection Rhineland (acquired around 1930)
- Private collection Frankfurt
- Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 259th auction, 06-08 June 1985, lot 1186
- Fisher Fine Art, London (acquired from the previous owner in 1985)
- Private collection, Germany (acquired from the previous owner in 1985)
- Christie's, London, auction 28.11.1989, lot 142
- Private collection Switzerland (acquired from the previous owner in 1989)
- Galerie Neher, Essen (acquired from the previous owner in 1990)
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the previous owner in 1990)

Exhibitions:
- Galerie Thomas, Munich 1990
- Westphalian State Museum, Münster 1991/92

Literature:
- Exhib. cat. Galerie Thomas, 25 Jahre danach, Galerie Thomas, Munich 1990, cat. no. 34, ill
- Weltkunst Verlag (ed.): Kunstpreis-Jahrbuch 1985, Deutsche und internationale Auktionsergebnisse, vol. 40.1, Munich 1985, p. 323
- Repro-Holland BV (ed.): World Collectors Annuary, Volume XXXVI, Delft 1985, p. 274
- Weltkunst Verlag (ed.): Art Prize Yearbook 1990, German and International Auction Results, Volume 45.1, Munich 1985, p. 320


- Nolde's mystical experience of nature is particularly well expressed in his luminous marshland landscapes
- Closed provenance
- His virtuoso watercolour painting and skilful use of colour make his works distinctive.