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Artist or Maker: Emil Nolde (1867-1956)

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Provenance: Prof. Hans Fehr, Bern, by whom acquired probably by circa 1925.
Anonymous sale, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, Ketterer, Stuttgart, 29 and 30 May 1959, lot 678 (illustrated pl. 8).
Otto Schäfer, Schweinfurt, by whom probably acquired at the above sale.
Anonymous sale, Kornfeld, Bern, 17 June 2005, lot 125.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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Exhibited: Dresden, Kunstsalon Emil Richter, Emil Nolde, 1920.
Frankfurt, Kunstsalon Ludwig Schames, Emil Nolde, 1920, no. 21.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Emil Nolde, March - April 1963, no. 24; this exhibition later travelled to San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art, May - July 1963 and to Pasadena, Art Museum, July - September 1963.

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Literature: The artist's handlist, 1910, no. c)484.
The artist's handlist, 1930 (titled and dated '1913 Mutter und Kind').
M. Urban, Emil Nolde, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. I, 1895-1914, London, 1987, no. 573 (illustrated p. 502).

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