Emil Nolde (1876-1956), etching and aquatint, 1911, signed in pencil lower right (titled lower margin edge). Reference: Schiefler and Mosel 168, fifth state (of 5). Printer: Sabo. In excellent condiion, the full sheet with wide margins, 11 3/4 x 9 3/4, the sheet 23 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches. Archival storage, between acid free board, unattached mylar hinging.
A superb impression, with the composition, figures and light quite vivid and clear, yet still atmospheric.
The essential design of this print was complete in the first state; in the subsequent states Nolde experimented with the shading and [...]
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Emil Nolde (1876-1956), etching and aquatint (tonal effects), 1922, signed in pencil lower right (also titled lower left). Reference: Schiefler-Mosel 207. In good condition, with very wide full margins (small loss and repaired tear upper left corner, rippling and slight soft folds at sheet edges); matrix immaculate. On an ivory wove paper with the J Zanders 1914 watermark. 12 1/4 x 9 3/4, the sheet 25 1/2 19 1/2 inches.
A fine clear and well printed impression.
In 1922 Nolde created 21 etchings, his last significant group of etchings. These were mostly compositions of weirdly shaped figures engaged in [...]
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Emil Nolde (1867-1956), Doppelbildness (Double Portrait), woodcut, 1937, signed in pencil and numbered 97. From the edition of 150 impressions, published by Schweizerische Graphische Gesellschaft. Reference: Schiefler and Mosel 193II (second state of 2). In excellent condition, printed in black on a heavy ivory wove paper with full margins, 12 3/8 x 9, the sheet 16 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches, archival matting.
A fine fresh and unusually strong impression of this iconic image.
This composition was essentially complete in the first state, but the hair of the man and woman were undifferentiated; in the second state [...]
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Emil Nolde (1867-1956), Unterhaltung (Conversation), etching, 1906, signed and dated in pencil lower right and also signed by the printer Otto Felsing lower left. Reference: Gustav Schiefler 37, fourth state (of 4). A proof apart from the edition of only 20 and ”some proofs” (Schiefler says: “einige probedrucke”) of this state. In excellent condition, on a heavy laid handmade paper with the (partial) watermark “V”, the full sheet with deckle edges, 6 x 7 1/2, the sheet 21 1/2 x 15 inches.
A fine exceptionally fresh impression of this superb composition, printed in a rich dark blue/green ink.
According to Schiefler only 5 proofs were made [...]
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