Emil Nolde

Alfred Leber, Malang, Java (acquired as a gift from the artist in 1922)

Dr. Lucien von Romer, Malang, Java (acquired circa 1946-47)

Ottfried and Inge Zimmerman, Vancouver (acquired by 1976)

Sotheby’s, New York, 14 May 1985, lot 56 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner 

Malang, Tentoonstelling Hedendaagsche Duitsche Kunst, 1929

Berlin, Galerie Nierendorf, 322 Werke von 31 Künstlern des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, 1982, no. 1, illustrated in colour on the cover

Halle, Stiftung Moritzburg, Unmittelbar und unverfälscht. Die 'Brücke'-Maler und ihre Motive, 2013-14

Paul Ferdinand Schmidt, “Emil Nolde,” Junge Kunst, vol. 53, 1929, fig. 14, n.p., illustrated

Emil Nolde, Welt und Heimat, Die Südseereise, 1913-1918, Cologne, 1965, p. 90, listed

Martin Urban, ed., Emil Nolde: Mein Leben, Cologne, 1976, p. 276, listed

Weltkunst, vol. 49, 15 March 1979, no. 6, p. 662, illustrated

Martin Urban, Emil Nolde: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Volume One: 1895-1914, Seebüll, 1987, no. 600, p. 527, illustrated

Christiane Lange, "'Diese eigentümlichen Tropenbilder' - Über Noldes in der Südsee entstandene Gemälde,” in Exh. Cat., Vienna, Kunstforum Bank Austria and Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Emil Nolde und die Südsee, 2002, p. 43, illustrated