Sonnenblumen und Fuchsschwanz. Ca. 1940.
Watercolor.
Signed in lower right. On Japan paper. 47 x 36.5 cm (18.5 x 14.3 in), the full sheet.
[SM].
• Part of the same family collection for 60 years.
• Dense and at the same time fascinating composition in subtly balanced colors.
• The flower arrangements are among the most sought-after subjects in the artist's oeuvre.

PROVENANCE: Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, May 3 and 4, 1961, 36th auction, lot 375.
Galerie Wilhelm Großhennig, Düsseldorf.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (since 1962)
family-owned ever since.

“The sunflowers are so large that I stand among them with my head all the way back and gratefully admire their beauty [..] colors barely imaginable radiate, and the scent of the mignonettes wafts all the way into the house.”
Emil Nolde, letter to Hans Fehr, September 20, 1928