The Provenance Research Project
Contact Information
If you have any questions or information to provide on the listed works, please send an e-mail to: provenance@moma.org.
Or write to:
Provenance Research Project
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York, N.Y. 10019
Christ and the Children
Emil Nolde (German, 1867–1956)
1910. Oil on canvas, 34 1/8 x 41 7/8" (86.8 x 106.4 cm). Gift of Dr. W. R. Valentiner
Collection work meeting criteria specified in Introduction.
341.1955
Kunsthalle, Hamburg. 1918 - 1937
Confiscated (as “degenerate art”) from German state-owned Museum in 1937; included in Entartete Kunst exhibition, in the Antiken-Museum in Hofgarten, Munich, July 19 - November 30, 1937, then sold by Nazi government.
Taken to Köpenicker Strasse, Berlin, January 1938, then to Schloss Niederschönhausen, Berlin. August 1938
Karl Buchholz Gallery, Berlin. 1939
Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York. 1939
Dr. Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner (1880-1958), Detroit. 1939 - 1955. (On extended loan to Detroit Institute of Arts, as part of the Valentiner Bequest, by 1955)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Dr. W. R. Valentiner, 1955
[Christus und die Kinder]
If you are interested in reproducing images from The Museum of Modern Art web site, please visit the Image Permissions page (www.moma.org/permissions). For additional information about using content from MoMA.org, please visit About this Site (www.moma.org/site).
© Copyright 2011 The Museum of Modern Art