Estate of the artist
Private Collection, Hamburg
Dr. and Mrs. Max M. Stern, New York
New Art Center, New York
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, May 20, 1982, lot 47
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

New York, Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco Museum of Art & Pasadena Art Museum, Emil Nolde Retrospective, 1963, no. 119
South Bend, Indiana, Art Gallery, University of Notre Dame, The German Expressionists and their Contemporaries: 50 Years of Fantasy and Frenzy, 1969-70, no. 87
New York, Serge Sabarsky Gallery, Watercolors by Emil Nolde, 1972

Executed on Japanese paper. Hinged to a mount at two spots along the top edge. Piece of tape one-inch in length on top edge verso from, presumably from previous matting job. Two small dents to the paper along top edge that appear to have been there before the artist applied the medium. Minor surface dirt. Colors are bright and fresh and work is in excellent condition.
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