Lot 129
Lot 129
PROPERTY FROM THE DEUTSCHE BANK COLLECTION
EMIL NOLDE (1867-1956)

Mühle am Wasser

Estimate
GBP 8,000 - GBP 12,000
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EMIL NOLDE (1867-1956)

Mühle am Wasser

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EMIL NOLDE (1867-1956)
Mühle am Wasser
lithograph printed from three stones in black, grey and pale greyish-green, 1926, on thin simili-Japan paper, signed and titled in pencil, inscribed In dieser Fassung ein Druck, a unique colour variant from the total edition of 23 impressions, printed by Druckerei Westphalen, Flensburg
Image 605 x 800 mm.
Sheet 645 x 841 mm.
Provenance
Helmut Horten (1909-1987), Bonn, Mülheim an der Ruhr & Croglio, Switzerland.
Presented from the above to Deutsche Bank, on occassion of the bank's 100th anniversary in 1970.
Literature
Schiefler & Mosel 82
Clifford S. Ackley, Timothy O. Benson, Victor Carlson, Nolde - The Painter's Prints, Boston, Mass., 1995, nos. 119a-c (other impressions illustrated).
Magdalena M. Moeller, Manfred Reuther (eds.), Emil Nolde - Druckgraphik, Munich, 1999, no. 128 (another impression illustrated).
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Lot Essay

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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