Otto Modersohn - Mondaufgang (Überschwemmung) - image-1

Lot 477 Dα

Otto Modersohn - Mondaufgang (Überschwemmung)

Auction 1033 - overview Cologne
30.05.2014, 18:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 17.000 € - 20.000 €
Result: 20.740 € (incl. premium)

Otto Modersohn

Mondaufgang (Überschwemmung)
1942

Oil on canvas 49.3 x 69.5 cm Framed. Signed and dated 'O Modersohn 42' lower left. - In very fine condition.

This landscape is typical of Modersohn's late period in Fischerhude. The artist had always been a keen observer of nature, but after he became blind in one eye, he is said to have only painted in his studio. In this respect, the current composition can be regarded as an "impression", a sensitive depiction of a meditative mind. The character of the landscape is rendered in a calm, emphatic and direct manner, and seems to have led the artist's imagination into a kind of dream-like land.

Catalogue Raisonné

Atelierbuch Otto Modersohn 1942, no. 183 (studio book; here titled "Mondaufgang")

Certificate

With an expertise from Christian Modersohn, Otto-Modersohn-Museum, Fischerhude, dated 12 February 2005. We would like to thank Rainer Noeres, Otto-Modersohn-Museum Fischerhude, for his additional information dated 7 April 2014.

Provenance

Private possession, Hamburg; Private possession, North Germany

Exhibitions

Fischerhude 2004 (Kunstverein Fischerhude, Buthmanns Hof), "Ortsbilder" (without cat.)