Alice

1907

Emil Nolde

Associated Names
Emil Nolde

Artist, German, 1867 - 1956

The image is an ink drawing of a woman depicted from the waist up, positioned in profile facing left. Her head is slightly tilted downward with the left side of her face obscured by shadow, emphasizing her nose and contour. She has short hair covered by an orange hat or scarf. She wears a high-collared reddish garment with green hints near the collar. The background is a soft wash of light purple and taupe tones with a black area highlighting her profile. No visible objects or jewelry are present in the image.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor and gouache over lithograph on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 56.9 × 42.6 cm (22 3/8 × 16 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.148

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schiefler/Mosel 1966, no. L 7, i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Jörg Maass Kunsthandel, Berlin); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased February 28, 2008; 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. L 7, i/ii

Inscriptions

below image, at right, in graphite: Emil Nolde; below image, at left, in graphite: "Alice" / (übermalt)

Wikidata ID

Q76555629

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