Mädchenkopf. Um 1930.
Watercolor.
Lower right signed. On Japan paper. 27 x 23 cm (10.6 x 9 in), the full sheet.
[EH].
• With the immediacy of expression, Nolde captured his subject in an inimitable intensity.
• In his portraits, which make for a large part of his oeuvre, Emil Nolde studied the nature of people, at the same time he lends them a mysterious aloofness.
• Family-owned for almost 70 years.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Karlsruhe (until 1956: Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett).
Private collection Baden-Württemberg (acquired from the above in 1956).
Family-owned ever since.

LITERATURE: Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, auction 25 Modern Art, November 27/28, 1956, lot 708 (here: Frauenkopf im Profil).
“But then I took a big step forward in a technique that had been almost completely forgotten in Germany, and painting with watercolors has remained a desire of mine ever since."
Emil Nolde, in: Reisen, Ächtungen, Befreiung. 1919-1946, Foundation Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde, Cologne 1967, p. 27