Sale: 477 / Classics of the 20th Century II, Dec. 07. 2018 in Munich Lot 446

 

446
Otto Modersohn
Sommerliche Wiesen bei Fischerhude, 1912.
Oil on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 18,000 / $ 19,440
Sold:
€ 21,250 / $ 22,950

(incl. surcharge)
Sommerliche Wiesen bei Fischerhude. 1912.
Oil on cardboard , laminated on board.
Signed in lower right. 44.7 x 62.8 cm (17.5 x 24.7 in).
[CH].

With a photo expertise issued by Rainer Noeres, Otto Modersohn Museum, Fischerhude, from December 20, 2014.

PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate.
Christian Modersohn (inherited).
Art shop Hanover.
Private collection Rhineland.

"Soaking up the colors, making them part of my mental inventory, to let them flow into the picture, free, entirely free. Inspiration is everything once you know nature."
Otto Modersohn, Worpswede, diary entry in May 1895, quote from: ex. cat. Otto Modersohn, Kunsthalle Friedrich Netzel, Worpswede, July-October 1977, p. 180.




446
Otto Modersohn
Sommerliche Wiesen bei Fischerhude, 1912.
Oil on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 18,000 / $ 19,440
Sold:
€ 21,250 / $ 22,950

(incl. surcharge)