Emil Nolde | Hyazinthen (blau und rot) und No-Maske

NOLDE, EMIL
1867 Nolde - 1956 Seebüll

Title: Hyazinthen (blau und rot) und No-Maske.
Date: Ca. 1950/52.
Technique: Watercolour on Japan laid paper.
Measurement: 47 x 32,5cm.
Notation: Signed lower left: Nolde.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed. Not examined out of the frame.

Enclosed with this work is an expert opinion by Prof. Dr. Martin Urban, Seebüll, dated 25 August 1990.

Provenance:
- Private collection Hesse

- As a passionate collector of ethnological objects, Nolde always included masks and figures in his still lifes.
- Nolde's fascination with exotic art began with his travels to East Asia in the 1910s
- Following his artistic principle of a subtle dissonance of motifs and colours, Nolde here allows exotic culture to meet transient nature in a powerful use of colour