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EMIL NOLDE Frau N. (Frau Ada Nolde).
Drypoint and etching, 1911. 232x185 mm; 9 1/4x7 1/2 inches, full margins. Second state (of 3), with the delicate vertical lines on the forehead but before the further darkening of the hair. One of approximately only 2 known impressions in this state, from a total edition of approximately only 26 in all three states combined. Signed in pencil, lower right. A brilliant, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce print.
A portrait of the artist's wife, Ada Vilstrup, the daughter of a Jutland preacher, who married Nolde in 1902.
Provenance: Julius Grober, Jena (Lugt 5741, verso). Schiefler/Mosel 165.
