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Emil Nolde

Nolde 1867 – 1956 Seebüll

”Violettes Alpenveilchen”. 1915/18

Watercolour on Japan paper. 23,9 × 16,3 cm (9 ⅜ × 6 ⅜ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Emil Nolde. ”Violettes Alpenveilchen”. 1915/18.

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This picture shows the following artwork: Emil Nolde. ”Violettes Alpenveilchen”. 1915/18.
This picture shows the following artwork: Emil Nolde. ”Violettes Alpenveilchen”. 1915/18.

Background:

This picture shows the following artwork: Emil Nolde. ”Violettes Alpenveilchen”. 1915/18.

Estimate:

EUR 20,000

 

- 30,000

USD 23,500

 

- 35,300

Sold for:

40,640 EUR (incl. premium)

Auction 372

Friday, November 28th 2025, 11:00 AM

Information

Watercolour on Japan paper. 23,9 × 16,3 cm (9 ⅜ × 6 ⅜ in.). Signed in pen and black ink lower right: Nolde. The watercolour is registered as number Fr.A.3948 in the archive of the Nolde Stiftung Seebüll and will be included in the catalogue raisonné of watercolours and drawings of Emil Nolde. The watercolour is part of a two-volume, hectographed typescript: Emil Nolde: Neuguinea. 1913 and 1914. No place, published by the artist, [1941]. Edition approx. 40 copies. On one of the front pages with the artist's dedication to Luise Schiefler, Hamburg.. [3023]

Luise Schiefler, Hamburg (received in 1936 by the artist as a gift, thence by descent to the present owner)

Provenance: Luise Schiefler, Hamburg (received in 1942 by the artist as a gift, thence by descent to the present owner)

Indina Woesthoff: Ada und Emil Nolde – Gustav und Luise Schiefler. Briefwechsel, vol. 2: 1915–1956. Berlin, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2023, p. 1356–1357, ill. of dedication p. 1352. 

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