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Christian Rohlfs,
1849 Groß Niendorf – 1938 Hagen
SONNENBLUMEN, 1919 Wassertempera und Öl auf geripptem Bütten.
67,5 x 49,5 cm.
Rechts unten monogrammiert und datiert „CR 19“.
Catalogue price € 25.000 - 30.000
Catalogue price€ 25.000 - 30.000
$ 27,000 - 32,400
£ 22,500 - 27,000
元 195,500 - 234,600
₽ 2,487,250 - 2,984,700
Bereits 1919 beschäftigte sich Christian Rohlfs motivisch in seinen Arbeiten auf Papier mit der Darstellung von Blumen, während er sich in seinem malerischen Werk auf die menschliche Figur und die Architektur konzentrierte. Die vorliegende Wassertempera fokussiert auf die beiden Blüten der Sonnenblumen, die der Künstler in einem breiten und freien Duktus anlegt, noch der Figuration verhaftet. Eine stärkere Loslösung und Abstraktion tritt erst mit dem Umzug Rohlfs’ nach Ascona 1927 ein, wo er seine Technik experimentell weiterentwickelt, etwa durch das Auswaschen der Farbe und Bearbeitung des Papiers mit der Drahtbürste. Das Sujet der Sonnenblume jedoch wurde von Rohlfs auch in diesen späteren Reifejahren in Variation mehrfach erneut aufgegriffen.
Guter altersgemäßer Zustand, Papier leicht gebräunt.
Provenienz:
Privatsammlung, Süddeutschland.
Literatur:
Paul Vogt, Christian Rohlfs. Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, Recklinghausen, 1958.
Werkverzeichnis Vogt wohl Nr. 1919-71 (mit abweichendem Format). (980911) (18)
Christian Rohlfs
1849 Groß Niendorf – 1938 Hagen
SONNENBLUMEN, 1919
Watertempera and oil on ripped laid paper.
67.5 x 49.5 cm.
Signed with the monogram and dated lower right “CR 19”.
It was already in the year 1919 when Christian Rohlfs moreover depicted various flowers in his works on paper, while his painterly oeuvre concentrates on figurative and architectural motifs. The shown watertempera focusses on the large blossoms of the sunflowers, which the artist gives in wide and spontaneous brushwork, still related to a realistic and figurative manner. Rohlfs developed a more abstract point of view after he had moved to Ascona in 1927. From then on he experimented: washing the colours out or treating the paper with a steel-brush. The subject 'sunflowers' still caught the artist's interest in these mature years and he created several variants of it in his late period. Due to age few minor defects, paper with slight time staining, overall in good condition.
Provenance:
Private collection, Southern Germany.
Literature:
Paul Vogt, Christian Rohlfs, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, Recklinghausen 1958.
Catalogue raisonné Vogt probably no. 1919-71 (different size).
This object has been individually compared to the information in the Art Loss Register data bank and is not registered there as stolen or missing.
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