Mädchenkopf

Details

Emil Nolde (1867-1956)
Mädchenkopf
signed 'Nolde.' (lower right)
watercolour and pen and India ink on paper
14¼ x 10.7/8 in. (36.2 x 27.8 cm.)
Executed circa 1920

Provenance

Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin.
Private collection, Germany, by whom acquired from the above in 1967.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 9 October 1997, lot 242.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Exhibited

Frankfurt, Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Zum 100. Geburtstag, Künstler des Expressionismus, September - November 1993 (illustrated).
New York, John McEnroe Gallery, Emil Nolde, Watercolors and Graphics , June - July 1995, no. 90 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Galerie Michael Beck, Leipzig.

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Lot Essay

This work is sold with a photo-certificate from Professor Dr Manfred Reuther of the Nolde Stiftung, Seebüll.

This portrait may depict the daughter of Max Sauerlandt, who was a close friend and patron of Emil Nolde and published the first monograph on the artist in 1921. He became director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle and was responsible for the acquisition of many of the major Expressionist works in the museum's collection.

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