Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right. Signed and titled on the stretcher. 116 x 87 cm.
[JS].

• Pure Expressionism: bold forms, intense colors, and maximum expressiveness.
• Enigmatic, menacing, seductive, mystical: emotionally charged facets of the feminine from Nolde’s most productive period.
• The fascination of the exotic: a painterly fusion of distant cultures and sensory impressions, gathered during Nolde’s South Sea voyage.
• Significant early exhibition history: exhibited at the Expressionist galleries of Ludwig Schames and Hans Goltz as early as the 1910s.
• In the possession of important international patrons of Modernism since 1922: Dr. Josef Esters, Krefeld; Lionel C. Epstein, Washington, D.C.; and most recently, part of a renowned Norwegian private collection for over 40 years.
The work is listed in the artist’s handwritten inventory from 1930 under the entry “1915 Drei Frauen” (Three Women).
LITERATURE: Martin Urban, Emil Nolde. Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. II (1915-1951), Munich 1990, CR no. 706 (illustrated) - - Weltkunst, vol. 54, no. 5, Munich 1984, p. 548 (illustrated in color). Christie's, London, auction on March 26, 1984, lot 27 (illustrated in color on p. 50).

Emil Nolde. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Graphik, Kunstsalon Ludwig Schames, Frankfurt am Main, Feb.-March 1, 1917, No. 23. Emil Nolde. Gemälde, Graphik, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, Jan. 6-Feb. 6, 1918, cat. no. 41 (with a label on the stretcher). Emil Nolde. Gemäde, Graphik, Galerie Neue Kunst Hans Goltz, Munich, May 15-June 15, 1918, cat. no. 21 (with a label on the stretcher). Emil Nolde, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Oct./Nov. 1919, cat. no. 26. Sommerausstellung, Dresden Artists' Association, 1919, cat. no. 114. Emil Nolde, Kunstsalon Ludwig Schames, Frankfurt am Main, April/May 1920, no. 29. Emil Nolde. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Graphik, Kunstverein Kassel, March 5-early April 1920, cat. no. 22. Christian Rohlfs. Emil Nolde. Enst Barlach, Schleswig-Holsteinischer Kunstverein, Kiel, Sept. 1920, cat. no. 72. Emil Nolde, Galerie Arnold, Wroclaw, Dec. 1920. Emil Nolde, Kunsthütte Chemnitz, Oct./Nov. 1920. Emil Nolde, Kunstverein Essen, Aug./Sept. 1921, without no. Expressionismus in Malerei und Plastik, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum, Krefeld, 1946, cat. no. 138

Dr. Josef Esters, Krefeld (1922). Private collection, Krefeld. Lionel C. Epstein, Washington, D.C. (since 1984; Christie’s, London). Kaare Berntsen, Oslo. Private collection, Norway (acquired from the above-mentioned around 1985)

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