Oil on canvas. 74 × 89 cm
(29 ⅛ × 35 in.). Signed lower right: Emil Nolde. Titled on the upper stretcher bar with brush in black: "Blumengarten“ [crossed out]. Catalogue raisonné: Urban 696. Framed
Provenance
Harry Fuld, Frankfurt a.M. (1917) / Lucy Mayer-Fuld, Frankfurt a. M. / Siegfried Adler, Montagnola (1975) / Private collection, Germany (since 1979)
EUR 800,000 - 1,200,000
USD 896,000 - 1,340,000
Sold for:
985,000 EUR (incl. premium)
Autumn Auctions 2016
Selected Works, 1 December 2016
Exhibition
Erste Ausstellung der Vereinigung für Neue Kunst. Frankfurt a. M., 1917, cat. no. 87 (Gelbe Königskerzen) / Emil Nolde. Frankfurt a. M., Ludwig Schames, 1917, no. 29 (folding page)
Literature and illustration
Doris Runge: Königskerzen. In: Grisebach. Das Journal. vol. 6, Berlin 2016, p. 41, with colour illustration