Stillleben mit Äpfeln und Orangen. Zwischen 1943-1950.
Watercolor.
Signed in lower left. On watercolor paper. 50.2 x 73.9 cm (19.7 x 29 in), the full sheet.
[AR].
• Watercolor in delicate and bright colors.
• In his later creative period, Schmidt-Rottluff increasingly concentrated on his immediate surroundings, and still lifes became his central motifs.
• The formal beauty of things and his personal dialogue with the subject are his key elements of creation.

The work is documented in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin, dokumentiert.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Northern Germany.
Private collection Southern Germany (since 2005, Villa Grisebach).

LITERATURE: Villa Grisebach, Berlin, 131st auction, November 26, 2005, lot 182 (color illu.).