Sale: 554 / Modern Art Day Sale, June 08. 2024 in Munich Lot 424


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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Ostseelandschaft am Morgen, Um 1920.
Watercolor over pencil on grained paper
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 31,500
Sold:
€ 38,100 / $ 40,005

(incl. surcharge)
Ostseelandschaft am Morgen. Um 1920.
Watercolor over pencil on grained paper.
Signed in lower right. Titled on the reverse. 33 x 48.7 cm (12.9 x 19.1 in), the full sheet.
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• Expression, form and color characterized by strong clarity: a prime examplel of Schmidt-Rottluff's watercolors from this period.
• From 1920 onwards, he regularly traveled to Jershöft on the Baltic Sea, his most important creative retreat.
• The medium watercolor is of central importance in his oeuvre and covers the period from the "Brücke" years to his final creative phase in the 1970s
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The work is documented in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Northern Germany.
Private collection Northern Germany.




424
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Ostseelandschaft am Morgen, Um 1920.
Watercolor over pencil on grained paper
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 31,500
Sold:
€ 38,100 / $ 40,005

(incl. surcharge)