Contemporary Art Day Auction

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Property from the Collection of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson

EMIL NOLDE | FRAUENKOPF (BLAUER GRUND) (HEAD OF A WOMAN (BLUE GROUND))

Auction Closed

June 30, 09:53 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson

EMIL NOLDE

1867 - 1956

FRAUENKOPF (BLAUER GRUND) (HEAD OF A WOMAN (BLUE GROUND))


signed

watercolor and pastel on paper

19 by 13⅞ in. 48.3 by 35.2 cm.

Executed in 1930-1935.


The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Professor Manfred Reuther.

Estate of the artist

Marlborough Fine Art, London

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1967

Jack Fischer, "The Anderson Collection," San Jose Mercury News, September 2000, p. 1E, illustrated

Richard Bammer, "Thoroughly Modern Milieu," The Reporter, October 2000, p. 1D, illustrated

Jack Fischer, "Paint the Town," San Jose Mercury News, October, 2000, p. 1F, illustrated

Miriam Silver, "Best of Shows," The Press Democrat, October 2000, pp. 15-16Q, illustrated

Jane Knoerle, "Going Public," The (Menlo Park, California) Almanac, October 2000, p. 13, illustrated

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Recent Acquisitions, 1967, 1967, cat. no. 37, illustrated

Stanford University Museum of Art, Twentieth-Century Drawings from the Anderson Collection: Auguste Rodin to Elizabeth Murray, November 1988 - February 1989, no. 5, p. 6, illustrated in color

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, October 2000 - January 2001, cat. no. 210, p. 309, illustrated in color