Sale: 428 / Modern Art, Dec. 03./05. 2015 in Munich Lot 227

 

227
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Dorfstraße bei Sonnenuntergang, 1913.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 43,200
Sold:
€ 52,500 / $ 56,700

(incl. surcharge)
Dorfstraße bei Sonnenuntergang. 1913.
Watercolor and charcoal drawing.
Signed and dated in lower left of image. On paper. 33 x 43 cm (12.9 x 16.9 in), size of sheet.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Buck, Mannheim.
Private collection Germany (acquired from previously mentioned in 1919, ever since in family possession).

Our sheet is a great document of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff's talents in the art of watercolors. With modesty he employs the colors' illuminative forces in order to dispaly the atmopsheric play of light of the setting sun. Eventually, only few color values are used, but their expressiveness is even stronger. By such means the watercolor is taken beyond the mere coloring and becomes and independent form of artistic expression.



227
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Dorfstraße bei Sonnenuntergang, 1913.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 43,200
Sold:
€ 52,500 / $ 56,700

(incl. surcharge)