Am Meer. Um 1930/40.
Watercolor and ink pen.
Signed in the lower right. Titled on the accompanying backing board. On fine Japanese paper. 15.4 x 13.3 cm (6 x 5.2 in), the full sheet. [CH].


• Depictions of the sea and Northern German landscapes, in particular of his native Seebüll in Holstein, are found throughout Emil Nolde's entire oeuvre.
• In the present work, the artist breaks up the flat blue-gray color scheme with fine hatched lines and the motifs of small steamships emitting dark smoke.
• Atmospheric composition: the sloping dunes allow only a glimpse of the vast sea and the cloudy sky, seeming to offer the painter protection from wind and storms.

Accompanied by a written confirmation issued by Prof. Dr. Manfred Reuther, then Director of the Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation, dated September 4, 2007.

PROVENANCE: Presumably Commetersche Kunsthandlung, Hamburg (with the label on the reverse).
Private collection, Northern Germany.