Young Couple (Junges Paar)

1913

Emil Nolde

Associated Names
Emil Nolde

Artist, German, 1867 - 1956

The image shows two individuals partially visible from their upper to part of their lower bodies. The person on the left is facing slightly towards the viewer with obscured facial features and hair covering part of the forehead. The person on the right has their back slightly turned but is looking towards the left, revealing some facial features and shoulder-length hair. Both individuals are wearing dark-colored clothing, with the person on the right having patterns in lighter shades. They are holding a flat object between them. The background displays abstract shapes and patterns in a monochrome color palette.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black and gray on japan paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image (irregular): 61.6 × 50.48 cm (24 1/4 × 19 7/8 in.)
    sheet (irregular): 69.69 × 54.45 cm (27 7/16 × 21 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.6700

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schiefler/Mosel 1966, no. L 52

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Buchholz Gallery, New York); purchased 1941 by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown; gift 1943 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1966

  • Prints 1800-1945, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; City Art Museum of St. Louis; and Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, 1966, no. 156.

1982

  • Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 73, repro.

1995

  • Emil Nolde: The Painter's Prints, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1995, 50, 71, 235-237, no. 80b.

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 52.

1991

  • Kopper, Philip. America's National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation. New York, 1991: 211, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q65019762

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