NOLDE, EMIL1867 Nolde - 1956 Seebüll


Title: Abendwolken über dem Watt.
Date: 1925/30.
Technique: Watercolour and India ink on Japan.
Measurement: 36 x 47cm.
Notation: Signed lower right: Nolde.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.


Enclosed with this work is a copy of a photo certificate from Prof. Dr. Martin Urban, Stiftung Seebüll Ada und Emil Nolde, dated 23rd February 1990, and a confirmation from the Foundation dated 15th November 2024. It is registered there under the number Fr.A.2521 and will be included in a future catalogue raisonné of the watercolours and drawings.

Provenance:
- Estate of the artist
- Private collection Rhineland (since 1959)
- Galerie Otmar Neher, Essen (label)
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (in 1990 acquired from the previous owner)

Exhibitions:
- Kunstverein Hamburg, 1957
- Museum Folkwang, Essen 1957
- Haus der Kunst, Munich 1957
- Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, Münster 1991/92

Literature:
- Exhib. cat. Emil Nolde, Gedächtnisausstellung, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg 1957, cat. no. 275
- Exhib. cat. Emil Nolde, Aquarelle und figürliche Radierungen, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte Münster, Münster 1991/92, p. 96, cat. no. 30, ill.


- Large-format watercolour in which Nolde's outstanding painterly technique comes into its own
- From one of the artist's peak periods, when he already had a reputation as a leading Expressionist
- Atmospherically dense and exciting depiction of nature in the North German landscape, emphasised by the water reflections.