Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Freundinnen (Klein) (Friends (Small))
Auction Closed
June 28, 12:29 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Emil Nolde
1867 - 1956
Freundinnen (Klein) (Friends (Small))
signed E. Nolde. (lower right); titled (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
54.5 by 69 cm. 21½ by 27¼ in.
Executed in 1945.
Nolde Stiftung, Seebüll
Marlborough Fine Art, London (acquired from the above in 1970)
Acquired from the above in 1970 by the present owner
Wieland Schmied, Malerei nach 1945, Berlin, 1974, p. 234, illustrated
Martin Urban, Emil Nolde, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings, 1915-1951, vol. II, London, 1990, no. 1256, p. 517. illustrated
Pforzheim, Reuchlinhaus, Nolde - Lehmbruck, 1961, no. 25, illustrated
Berlin, Kongresshalle, Emil Nolde, 1962, no. 29, illustrated
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art; Pasadena, The Pasadena Art Museum, Emil Nolde, 1963, no. 61
New York, Marlborough Fine Art, Masters of the 20th Century, 1971, no. 51, p. 98 illustrated in colour