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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Emil Nolde

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