"Windmill, 1924"

Source: Emil Nolde, published in 1957, (heavyweight cardstock, off-white paper base)

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"The many windmills in Nolde's native province, looming against the broad horizon, seemed to the artist endowed with personalities of their own. In Years of Struggles he wrote: '... the great mill for grinding flour that towered above everything else. When I was only half-grown, we would go by it with the cattle every spring and fall, and I would look up at the powerful vanes swooping and swishing. It seemed as though the windmill were proudly calling out to all who passed: 'Admire my beauty!' while its turning vanes were mirrored in the canals.' 

Nolde sought repeatedly to capture this epic motif, first, in 1907, in a lithograph still Impressionist in style, again in 1913 in a color lithograph, whose driving composition and dark blue-green color harmonies already inject the metaphorical touch of a living thing. Finally, in 1926 Nolde executed a widely admired color lithograph, Windmill by the Water, a variation on the theme and mood of this painting. 

Nolde spent 1924 at Utenwarf, very quietly, producing only still life's, paintings of flowers, and landscapes, sixteen paintings in all. In this one, the non-naturalistic composition and the subdued color harmony dominated by black, dark green, violet and blue (only the orange and white glow) bring out the legendary element in the landscape. The picture has an epic quality, as though illustrating an old tale of some mill by the water. The scene portrays the moment when the light expires in the vaulting sky, one last flicker tinging a cloud with orange."

Unique and distinctive. Suitable for framing.

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