Stormy Sea

c. 1930

Emil Nolde

Artist, German, 1867 - 1956

Waves painted with strokes of sapphire blue and muted emerald green surge across the bottom third of this horizontal watercolor. The top two-thirds are dominated by towering piles of clouds painted in violet purple and marigold orange. The sky above around the clouds is shaded with turquoise and soft blue. The artist signed the lower right corner, “Nolde.”
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor on japan paper (applied recto and verso)

  • Credit Line

    Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 33.3 x 47 cm (13 1/8 x 18 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2006.60.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 8 June 1972, no. 1740). Private collection, USA. (Salamander Fine Arts Limited, London); purchased by NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1995

  • Nolde Watercolors in America, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1995 (unnumbered checklist only).

2006

  • Salamander Fine Arts, Paintings and Watercolors, 14th - 20th Century. Hazlitt, Gooden, and Fox, New York, April 2006, p. 78.

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 162.

Bibliography

2006

  • Robison, Andrew. "Emil Nolde, Stormy Sea." Bulletin / National Gallery of Art, no. 35 (Fall 2006): 24, repro.

Inscriptions

lower right in watercolor: Nolde

Wikidata ID

Q64559423

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