Lot 158
  • 158

Emil Nolde

Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Emil Nolde
  • DER ALTE (THE OLD MAN)
  • indistinctly signed Nolde (lower right)
  • watercolour and gouache on paper
  • 21.5 by 14.4cm., 8 1/2 by 5 3/4 in.

Provenance

Ada & Emil Nolde, Seebüll
Private Collection, New York
Fischer Fine Arts Ltd., London
Acquired from the above by the late owner in April 1981

Exhibited

Boston, Boston Museum of Fine Arts; New York, M. Knoedler & Co.; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art (and travelling), Unpainted Pictures, 1966, no. 37 
San Francisco, Modernism, Art of the 20th Century: German Expressionism, 1981

Condition

Executed on Japan paper, not laid down, attached to the mount at the top two corners, floating in the mount. There is a small flattened crease to the lower right corner. There is a small spot of paper skinning to the lower left corner. Apart from some slight undulation along the top edge, this work is in good condition. Colours: Overall fairly accurate although warmer and more subtle in the original.
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