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Mühle am Wasser is one of Nolde's largest and most experimental prints. It belongs to a small, but highly significant group of colour lithographs, which the artist printed in a variety of colour combinations, all of which are rare and many unique. The subject of the windmill is a highly traditional landscape motif, and a very familiar one in the flatlands of Northern Germany and Denmark where Nolde came from. His treatment of the mill and the high sky over the plain however is entirely modern and his own, in its cursory, bold outlines and the doubling of the mill and the cloud in the reflection in the water. By printing the lithograph in drastically different tonalities and colour combinations, Nolde achieved completely different effects, transforming the scene to represent different times of the day and weather conditions, rendering the landscape as a night-piece, during sunset or on a bright, slightly misty afternoon, such as the present variant.
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In addition to or elaboration of the catalogue description: - with 25-35 mm. margins on all sides. - brown mount staining along the sheet edges in the margins. - the sheet backed with thin Japan paper to secure the following tears and splits: - a 295 mm. tear from the lower sheet edge at centre to the lower dark shoreline. - a circa 200 mm. tear or paper split near the left sheet edge below the mill, touched in with pale green watercolour. - thee abraded areas in the upper right of the subject, the largest measuring circa 10 x 30 mm. - a circa 35 mm. long paper split near the right sheet edge at centre. - a circa 60 mm. vertical tear at the lower sheet edge at left. - a few other minor tears and paper splits elsewhere. - inscribed with the number 15.230 in pencil at lower left. - another number in pencil at lower right sheet edge, partially trimmed off. Otherwise as described in the catalogue.
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Lot 129Sale 21036
Mühle am WasserEMIL NOLDE (1867-1956)Estimate: GBP 8,000 - 12,000
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