LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

23.62 in. (60.00 cm.) (height) by 27.56 in. (70.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed Nolde (lower right); signed Emil Nolde and titled on the stretcher

Literature:

Artist's Handlist, 1910, a, no. 167; Artist's Handlist, 1910, b, no. 169; Artist's Handlist, 1910, c, no. 192; Artist's Handlist, 1930: listed as '1908 Blumengarten, ohne Figur'; Martin Urban, Emil Nolde. Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings, London, 1990, vol. I, no. 275, catalogued p. 246

Provenance:

Ada Nolde, Germany (the artist's wife); Private Collection, Frankfurt (acquired from the above in 1926); Thence by descent to the present owners