Emil Nolde - Kopf eines Javaners (Portrait of a Javanese) - image-1

Lot 164 D

Emil Nolde - Kopf eines Javaners (Portrait of a Javanese)

Auction 943 - overview Cologne
28.05.2009, 16:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 60.000 € - 80.000 €
Result: 72.000 € (incl. premium)

Watercolour 54 x 40 cm on lightly grained hand-made paper, framed under glass. Signed Nolde with pencil at lower right. - Slightly browned; minor defects and marginal small tears at upper edge professionally restored.

Certificate

With a photo certificate by Manfred Reuther, Ada und Emil Nolde Foundation, Seebüll, dated 12 March 2009, confirming an older certificate by Martin Urban from August 12, 1969.

Provenance

Former collection Wilhelm Kürten, Bielefeld (acquired ca. 1925); Gallery Koch, Lübeck, 1974; private collection Rhineland

Exhibitions

Bielefeld 1930 (Städtisches Kunsthaus), Ausstellung aus Bielefelder Privatbesitz, cat. no. 60 ("Javaner"); Bielefeld 1967 (Städtisches Kunsthaus Bielefeld), Emil Nolde. Aquarelle aus Bielefelder Privatbesitz, cat. no. 1 with ill. p. 7 ("Kopf eines Javaners")