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Otto Modersohn - Oil on canvas
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Otto Modersohn
Dunkle Moorlandschaft, 1939
Oil on canvas
Starting bid:
€ 10,000
Estimate:
€ 12,000 - 18,000
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82
Otto Modersohn
Dunkle Moorlandschaft, 1939
Oil on canvas
Starting bid:
€ 10,000
Estimate:
€ 12,000 - 18,000
End: 04-15-26 15:40:00 Berlin
04-15-26 09:40:00 New York
04-15-26 06:40:00 Los Angeles (30 days, 15h:07m)

Please enter your maximum bid, it will only be used to the extent necessary to beat the next best bid.
Bid plus 34 % buyer's premium (differential taxation without separate VAT statement, sales tax certificate upon request).
Self pick-up: free of charge,
insured shipping:
within Germany 105,68 €,
within the EU countries 184,95 €,
outside the EU countries on request.


After entering your maximum bid you will be able to check your entry and you will be provided with further information. Only after a further confirmation your bid will be binding.


Otto Modersohn
1865 - 1943
Dunkle Moorlandschaft. 1939.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right. 61.5 x 85 cm (24.2 x 33.4 in).
The painting will be included in the catalogue raisonné currently in preparation under the inventory number “WV-OM-SW-1939, No. 131 Moorbild Wolken grau” (Moorland Painting, Gray Clouds). [MH].

• The artist is considered one of the leading figures of the Worpswede School.
• Atmospheric, nuanced landscape painting from the late work of what was probably the most important German landscape painter of his time.
• Until January 12, 2025, the Otto Modersohn Museum in Fischerhude presented a Otto Modersohn retrospective to mark the museum's 50th anniversary.

We are grateful to Mr. Rainer Noeres, Otto Modersohn Museum, Fischerhude, for his kind expert advice.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Koch-Westenhoff, Lübeck (1987).
Alfred Gies, Bremen.
Private collection, Bavaria.

In good condition. Overall slightly soiled. The lower edge is slightly rubbed. With a few minor retouches. The condition report was compiled in daylight with the aid of a UV light source and to the best of our knowledge and belief.