LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

28.98 in. (73.60 cm.) (height) by 35.39 in. (89.90 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'Emil Nolde' (lower right); titled 'Herbstmeer (XVII)' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Hamburg, Kunstverein; Essen, Museum Folkwang and Munich, Haus der Kunst, Emil Nolde, April-December 1957, p. 25, no. 59 (illustrated). Kunsthaus Zürich, Emil Nolde, 1867-1956, October-November 1958, no. 12. Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Les sources du XXe siècle: les arts en Europe de 1884 à 1914, November 1960-January 1961, p. 176, no. 519. Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Emil Nolde, May-June 1961, no. 13 (illustrated). Im Kunstverein Hannover, Emil Nolde, July-September 1961, no. 11 (illustrated). New York, Spencer A. Samuels & Company, Ltd., Expressionismus, October-November 1968, p. 23, no. 8 (illustrated in color, p. 22; with inverted dimensions).

Literature:

The Artist's Handlist, 1910, no. 372. M. Sauerlandt, Emil Nolde, Munich, 1921, p. 82, no. 24 (illustrated). H. Hildebrandt, Die Kunst des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, Wildpark-Potsdam, 1924, p. 367, no. 395 (illustrated). E. Knauf, Empörung und Gestaltung, Berlin, 1928, p. 150 (illustrated). The Artist's Handlist, 1930. M. Urban, Emil Nolde: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, London, 1987, vol. I, p. 402, no. 464 (illustrated).

Provenance:

Nolde Stiftung Seebüll. M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (acquired from the above, January 1965). Cecil "Titi" Blaffer von Fürstenberg, Houston (acquired from the above, 1965). By descent from the above to the present owners.