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Emil Nolde

Associated Names
Emil Nolde

Artist, German, 1867 - 1956

The image displays a landscape view from a slightly elevated point. The horizon is positioned low with dark masses in the sky, which could be interpreted as storm clouds or smoke. The brushstrokes are dynamic and expressive, with rapid, diagonal hatching lines. The color palette consists mainly of deep blacks and grays with a few white highlights. The ground close to us is textured with bold strokes, while a distant, indistinct silhouette breaks the skyline.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and tonal etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 30.4 × 40.4 cm (11 15/16 × 15 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 40 × 48.7 cm (15 3/4 × 19 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.149

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schiefler/Mosel 1966, no. I 135, iv/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Allan Frumkin Gallery, Inc., Chicago); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased December 6, 1973; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

Bibliography

1966

  • Schiefler, Gustav, and C. Mosel. Emil Nolde: das graphische Werk. 2 vols. Cologne, Germany: Verlag M. Du Mont Schauberg, 1966-1967, no. I 135, iv/iv

Inscriptions

below image, at right, in graphite: Emil Nolde; below image, at left, in graphite: IV/20

Wikidata ID

Q76555630

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