LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

34.13 in. (86.70 cm.) (height) by 39.53 in. (100.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'Emil Nolde' (center right); signed again and titled 'Emil Nolde: Indische Tänzerin' (on the stretcher)

Exhibited:

The Detroit Institute of Arts (on loan). Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Modern German Art, May-June 1930, no. 29. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Modern German Painting and Sculpture, March-April 1931, p. 32, no. 70 (illustrated). Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The Harvard Society: Masterpieces from the Berlin Museums, 1948. Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Upstairs Gallery, Harris Hall, Some German Expressionists, November 1954. Beverly Hills, Paul Kantor Gallery, W.R. Valentiner Collection: German Expressionists, 1956. Raleigh, Museum of Art, In Memory of W.R. Valentiner, Masterpieces of Art, April-May 1959, p. 179, no. 132 (illustrated, p. 212). Detroit, The J.L. Hudson Gallery, The W.R. Valentiner Memorial Exhibition, November-January 1964, no. 34 (illustrated in color). Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museums; Stiftung Seebüll Ada und Emil Nolde and Kunsthalle Ko¨ln, Emil Nolde: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik, February-April 1973, p. 55, no. 77 (illustrated, pl. 59). Ravensburg, Städtische Galerie Altes Theater, Expressionismus: Malerei und Grafik, November-December 1980, p. 94 (illustrated in color, pp. 94-95). Ingelheim am Rhein, 100 Jahre Kunst in Deutschland 1885-1985, April-June 1985, p. 39, no. 14 (illustrated in color). Stuttgart, Würtembergischer Kunstverein, Künstler in Deutschland: Individualismus und Tradition, September 1986, p. 351 (illustrated in color, p. 87). Stuttgart, Würtembergischer Kunstverein and Stiftung Seebüll Ada und Emil Nolde, Emil Nolde, December 1987-February 1988, p. 242, no. 67. Lugano, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Emil Nolde, March-June 1994, pp. 80 and 234, no. 48 (illustrated in color on the front cover; illustrated again in color, p. 81; illustrated again, p. 234). Vienna, Kunstforum Bank Austria, Emil Nolde, December 1994-March 1995, p. 336, no. 40 (illustrated in color). London, Whitechapel Art Gallery and Copenhagen, Museum of Modern Art, Emil Nolde, December 1995-May 1996, p. 91 (illustrated in color, p. 94). Ravensburg, Schloss Achberg, Expressive Kunst: Sammlung Selinka, May-October 1996, pp. 84 and 147, no. 84 (illustrated in color, p. 85). Vienna, Kunstforum Bank Austria and Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Emil Nolde und die Südsee, December 2001-May 2002, p. 365, no. 273 (illustrated in color). Murnau, Schloßmuseum, Maler des “Blauen Reiter" –Paul Klee–Deutsche Expressionisten, July-November 2006, pp. 142 and 181, no. 57 (illustrated in color, pp. 143 and 181).

Literature:

The Artist's Handlist, 1930. Letter from W.R. Valentiner to E. Nolde, 15 December 1931. M. Heiden, "Neue Deutsche Kunst im Detroit Institute of Arts" in Museum der Gegenwart, vol. 2, no. 1, 1931, pp. 13-22 (illustrated). M.E. Benson, "Emil Nolde" in Parnassus, vol. 5, no. 1, 1933, pp. 12-14 and 25 (illustrated). P. Selz, German Expressionist Painting, Berkeley, 1957, p. 290 (illustrated, pl. 129; titled South Sea Dancers). “100 Jahre Kunst in Deutschland” in Ärzte-Magazin, no. 22, 1985, p. 6 (illustrated in color). THOMAE-Zeitung, no. 1/2, 1989, p. 12 (illustrated in color). M. Urban, Emil Nolde: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings, 1915-1951, London, 1990, vol. II, p. 145, no. 766 (illustrated). “Emil Nolde: Retrospektive” in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 1994, p. 37, no. 119. “Glühende Fremdheit” in Münchner Merkur, March 2002 (illustrated in color). “Abglanz von farbigem Leben” in Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 2002 (illustrated in color). “Von der Waterkant ins Paradies” in Abendzeitung, March 2002 (illustrated in color). “Emil Nolde und die Südsee” in Donaukurier, March 2002 (illustrated in color). Diners Club Magazine, April 2002, p. 47 (illustrated in color). Venus, May 2002. Top Magazine, Munich, vol. 1, no. 02 (illustrated). DB Mobile, April 2002 (illustrated in color). “Dieses unbändige Leuchten der Landschaften: Poesie in Fläche und Linie: Das Schlossmuseum Murnau wartet mit einer Privatsammlung von Kandinsky bis Kirchner auf” in Oberbayerisches Volksblatt, July 2006. “Dieses unbändige Leuchten der Landschaften: Poesie in Fläche und Linie: Das Schlossmuseum Murnau wartet mit einer Privatsammlung von Kandinsky bis Kirchner auf” in Münchner Merkur, July 2006. J. Voss, "Drei neue Bücher über Emil Nolde: Meine Kunst ist deutsch, stark, herb und innig" in Aktuelle Kulturnachrichten Feuilleton, 24 August 2017 (illustrated in color; with incorrect provenance).

Provenance:

Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner, Berlin and Detroit (by 1930). Brigitta Valentiner Bertoia, Barto, Pennsylvania (by descent from the above). Siegfried Adler, Montagnola, Switzerland (1973). Peter and Gudrun Selinka, Ravensburg (1974). Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1996.