Emil Nolde: Ein Paar, Mann und Frau

Emil Nolde: Ein Paar, Mann und Frau
NOLDE, EMIL
1867 Nolde - 1956 Seebüll

Title: Ein Paar, Mann und Frau.
Date: Between 1931 and 1935.
Technique: Watercolour and India ink on Japan.
Measurement: 25 x 33cm.
Notation: Signed lower right: Nolde.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed. Not examined out of the frame.

The watercolour was begun on the reverse with a double portrait that was not completed. The sheet belongs to the watercolour series of 'Fantasies', which were created between 1931 and 1935.

The work is accompanied by a photographic expertise by Professor Dr Manfred Reuther, Stiftung Seebüll Ada und Emil Nolde, dated 17 March 2008.

Provenance:
- Alfred and Anne Hentzen, Hanover/Hamburg
- Private collection Hamburg
- Private collection Switzerland
- Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, auction 6 June 2008, lot 103
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia
- Collection Prof. Dr Thomas Olbricht, Essen

Exhibitions:
- Frankfurter Kunstverein, 1967
- Galerie- und Künstlerhaus Spiekeroog, 2009

- Striking, sheet-filling double portrait with intense, deep colours
- From the 'Phantasies' group of works, created between 1931 and 1935
- Under the title 'Emil Nolde - Fantasies', the Nolde Foundation in Seebüll is dedicating an exhibition to this group of works until October 2024

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Explanations to the Catalogue

Emil Nolde
Germany
Die Brücke
Modern Art
1930s
Framed. Not examined out of the frame
Couples
Works on paper
Mixed media
Colour