Bildnis einer Südseeinsulanerin (en face)

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Emil Nolde (1867-1956)
Bildnis einer Südseeinsulanerin (en face)
signed 'Nolde.' (lower right)
gouache and watercolour on rice straw paper
19 1/8 x 13 3/8 in. (48.5 x 34 cm.)
Executed in New Guinea in 1914

Provenance

Acquired by the grandparents of the present owner for Christmas 1921, and thence by descent.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

This work is sold with a photo-certificate from Professor Dr. Manfred Reuther of the Nolde Stiftung, Seebüll.

“Das war Neuguinea: Du wildes, schönes Land!” (Nolde, Welt und Heimat, Die Südseereise 1913-1918, Cologne, 1936, p. 107).

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