About the Artwork
Two Peasants
ca. 1930
Emil Nolde
1867-1956
German
Unknown
Watercolor (applied to both recto and verso) and black ink on japanese paper
Sheet: 7 5/8 × 5 3/4 inches (19.4 × 14.6 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of John S. Newberry
45.461
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Markings
Signed in pen and brown ink, lower center: Nolde
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Provenance
John S. Newberry (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)
1945-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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German Expressionism in Art. Exh. cat., University of Minnesota Art Gallery. Minneapolis, 1950, no. 101.
Myers, B. S. German Expressionists. New York, 1957, pl. 35.
The John S. Newberry Collection. Exh. cat., the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1965, p. 70 (ill.).
German Expressionist Prints, Drawings and Watercolors: Die Brucke. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1967, no. 66, p. 70 (ill. p. 69).
Uhr, H. Masterpieces of German Expressionism at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1982, p. 182 (ill.).
Finch, Christopher. Twentieth-Century Watercolors. New York, 1988, p. 86 (pl. 95).
Uhr, H. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, cat. no. 106, pp. 194-195 (ill.).
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Emil Nolde, Two Peasants, ca. 1930, watercolor (applied to both recto and verso) and black ink on japanese paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of John S. Newberry, 45.461.
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