Live Auction 11793Impressionist & Modern Art Works on Paper
Emil Nolde (1867-1956)
Lot 166

Emil Nolde (1867-1956)

Lilien und Mohnblumen

Closed23 June 2016

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GBP 47,500

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Emil Nolde (1867-1956)
Lilien und Mohnblumen
signed 'Nolde.' (lower right)
watercolour on Japan paper
18 x 13 3/8 in. (45.6 x 34 cm.)

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 December 1996, lot 160.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

This work is sold with a photo-certificate from Professor Dr. Manfred Reuther of the Nolde Stiftung, Seebüll.

‘I loved the flowers and their destiny: shooting up, blooming, radiating, glowing, gladdening, drooping, wilting, and ultimately thrown away and dying. Our human destinies are by no means always so logical or so beautiful.’ (E. Nolde, Jahre der Kämpfe, Berlin, 1934, p.228.)