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Property from the Estate of Lloyd and Margit Cotsen, Sold to Benefit the Cotsen Foundation for the Art of Teaching

Emil Nolde

Meer E (Sea E)

No reserve

Auction Closed

November 15, 10:48 PM GMT

Estimate

1,800,000 - 2,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Estate of Lloyd and Margit Cotsen, Sold to Benefit the Cotsen Foundation for the Art of Teaching

Emil Nolde

1867 - 1956


Meer E (Sea E)

signed Nolde (lower left); titled (on the reverse)

oil on panel

28½ by 39¼ in.

72.4 by 99.7 cm.

Executed in 1930.

Nolde Stiftung, Seebüll (acquired from the artist)
Walther Moreira-Salles, Rio de Janeiro and Paris (acquired from the above in 1964)
E. Graf, Rio de Janeiro and Zürich
Acquired from the above in 1997 by the present owner

The artist's handlist, 1930

Käthe Klein, ed., Bilder von Emil Nolde in Essen, Essen, 1957, p. 24, illustrated

Emile Nolde, Reisen Ächtung Befreiung, Cologne, 1967, p. 95, illustrated

Martin Urban, Emil Nolde: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings 1915-1951, vol. II, London, 1990, no. 1104, p. 406, illustrated

Emile Nolde, Mein Leben, Cologne, 2008, p. 298, illustrated in color

Hamburg, Kunstverein, Memorial Exhibition, 1957, no. 152, illustrated 
Copenhagen, Slot Charlottenborg, Emil Nolde, 1958, no. 69, illustrated
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Emil Nolde, 1958, no. 50
Frankfurt, Kunstverein, Emil Nolde, 1958, no. 34, illustrated
Zürich, Kunsthaus, Emil Nolde 1867-1956, 1958, no. 56
Schleswig, Landesmuseum, Die Maler der "Brücke" in Schleswig-Holstein, 1962, no. 61, p. 30, illustrated in color
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Emil Nolde, 1963, no. 50
Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1969, no. 30
Cologne, Kunsthalle, Emil Nolde, 1973, no. 99, illustrated