LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

22.32 in. (56.70 cm.) (height) by 27.95 in. (71.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'Nolde.' (lower left); signed again and titled 'Emil Nolde: Kleines Meerbild' on the stretcher

Exhibited:

New York, Spencer A. Samuels and Company, Ltd., Expressionismus, October-November 1968, p. 27 (illustrated in color, pl. 10).

Literature:

The Artist's Handlist, 1930. M. Urban, Emil Nolde: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings, 1915-1951, London, 1990, vol. II, p. 482, no. 1202 (illustrated).

Provenance:

Dr. Bernhard Sprengel, Hanover. Anon. sale, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart, 21 May 1960, lot 439. Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III, New York (probably acquired at the above sale). M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (acquired from the above, March 1963). Cecil "Titi" Blaffer von Fürstenberg, Houston (acquired from the above, March 1964). By descent from the above to the present owners.