Emil Nolde (1867-1956)

Frauenkopf - Tochter Max Sauerlandt

Details

Emil Nolde (1867-1956)
Frauenkopf - Tochter Max Sauerlandt
signed 'Nolde' (lower right)
watercolour, brush and black ink on paper
14¼ x 10 7/8in. (36.2 x 27.6cm.)

Provenance

Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin, from whom purchased by the previous owner in 1967.

Exhibited

Hamburg, Hauswedell & Nolte, Von Edvard Munch bis Willem de Kooning, 1989.
Frankfurt, Galerie Hanna Becker vom Rath, Gedächtnisausstellung, Sept.-Nov. 1993 (illustrated) New York, John McEnroe Galleries, Emil Nolde, June-July 1995. This exhibition later travelled to Galerie Michael Beck, Leipzig.

Lot Essay

Max Sauerlandt was a close friend and patron of Emil Nolde, and he published the first monograph on the Artist in 1921. He became director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg and was responsible for the acquisition of many of their major expressionist works in the museum's collection.

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