Two Old Men Speaking

Prints and Drawings

1938

Emil Nolde
German, 1867-1956

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Artist: Emil Nolde
Title: Two Old Men Speaking
Origin: Germany
Date: 1938
Medium: Watercolor and gouache on white wove Japanese paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, upper left, in pen and black ink: "Nolde"
Dimensions: 209 × 128 mm
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1998.707R

London, Marlborough Galleries, “Emil Nolde,” February–March 1964, cat. 70.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1964.
Wellesley, Mass., Wellesley College Art Museum, “Two Women Collect,” April 2–25, 1976.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings,” June 11– September 7, 1999, checklist 41.
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, pp. 188-189, cat. 138 (ill.).

Estate of the artist; sold to Marlborough Galleries, London, 1964 [correspondence with Dr. Manfred Reuther, Director, Stiftung Seebüll Ada und Emil Nolde, of May 2004 in curatorial file]; sold to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, 1964; given to the Art Institute, 1998.

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