ID 1306115 
Lot 42  | EMIL NOLDE (1867-1956)
Estimate value
£ 1 000 000 – 1 500 000 
Herbstmeer XV
signed and inscribed ‘Emil Nolde Herbstmeer XV’ (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
29 x 31 in. (73.7 x 78.5 cm.)
Painted in the Autumn of 1911
Provenance
Fritz Herbst, Mannheim, by 1930.
Herbert Tannenbaum Galleries, New York & Kleeman Galleries, New York; sale, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart, 26 May 1955, lot 1780.
Private collection, Germany, by whom acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
The Artist's Handlist, 1910-1915, no. 370 (with pencil sketch).
The Artist's Handlist, 1930.
M. Urban, Emil Nolde, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings, vol. I, 1895-1914, London, 1987, no. 462, p. 400 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Hagen, Museum Folkwang, Emil Nolde, March - April 1912.
Münster, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Emil Nolde, April 1912.
Jena, Kunstverein, Emil Nolde. Gemälde, Graphik, April - May 1913.
Halle, Kunstverein, Emil Nolde, January - February 1914.
Frankfurt, Kunsthandlung Ludwig Schames, Emil Nolde. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Druckgraphik, January - February 1924.
Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Brücke, Bauhaus, Blaue Reiter, March - June 2010, no. 154, pp. 162 & 233 (illustrated p. 162).
Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Poesie der Farbe, October 2015 - February 2016, no. 139, pp. 77 & 216 (illustrated p. 77).
Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, on long term loan from 2008 - 2023.
| Artist: | Emil Nolde (1867 - 1956) | 
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Oil on canvas, Painted | 
| Art style: | Modern art | 
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe | 
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings | 
| Artist: | Emil Nolde (1867 - 1956) | 
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Oil on canvas, Painted | 
| Art style: | Modern art | 
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe | 
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings | 
| Address of auction | CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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