Portrait of Mary Wigman

Prints and Drawings

c. 1920

Emil Nolde
German, 1867-1956

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Emil Nolde
Title: Portrait of Mary Wigman
Origin: Germany
Date: 1915–1950
Medium: Watercolor on cream Japanese paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "Nolde."; inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "58."
Dimensions: 483 × 355 mm
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1998.706

Cambridge, Mass., Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, “Twentieth Century Germanic Art from Private Collections of Greater Boston,” March 23–May 1, 1961.
Providence, R. I., Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University, “Poetry and Fact in Modern Art,” May 2–June 5, 1962.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Emil Nolde,” March 4–April 1963, cat. 65, cat. by Peter Selz; traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Art, May 28–June 1963 and the Pasadena Art Museum, July 27–September 1963.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, November 1964.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1967.
Wellesley, Mass., Wellesley College Art Museum, “One Century: Wellesley Families Collect. An Exhibition Celebrating the Centennial of Wellesley College,” April 2–25, 1976, cat. 63, cat. by Ann Gabhart, et al.
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Arts, “Art and Dance,” November 9, 1982–January 8, 1983, hors. cat.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings,” June 11–September 7, 1999, checklist 40.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 180, cat. 131 (ill.).

Sold by Peter H. Deitsch Gallery, New York, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, April 11, 1960 [invoice]; given to the Art Institute, 1998.

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