Mit den schwarzen Tulpen. 1967.
Watercolor and India ink.
Signed in the image in lower right and inscribed with the work number "6734" in bottom margin. Titled and inscribed "69/37" on the reverse. On off-white wove paper. 70 x 49.5 cm (27.5 x 19.4 in), the full sheet. [JS].

• Sovereignly composed, summery still life.
• Fascinating example of Schmidt-Rottluff's masterly composition of outline and colored form.
• Important provenance: Formerly part of the Bahlsen Collection, Hanover.
• The technique of watercolor is of central importance in Schmidt-Rottluff's oeuvre: it always played an important role in his oeuvre from the years of the "Brücke" to his last creative phase of the 1970s.

The watercolor is documented in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin.

PROVENANCE: Collection H. Bahlsens Keksfabrik KG, Hanover.
Estate of Andrea v. Nordeck neé Bahlsen, Hanover (from the above).
Delta Kunsthandels - u. Verwaltungs GmbH & Co. KG (estate of the above - 2019, Kastern, March 16, 2019, lot 88).
Private collection Northern Germany (since 2019).

LITERATURE: Kastern Kunstauktionen, auction on March 16, 2019, p. 33, cat. no. 88 (fig.).