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About the Artwork

Dampfer

1910

Emil Nolde

1867-1956

German

Unknown

Etching printed in black on laid paper

Plate: 12 × 16 inches (30.5 × 40.6 cm) Sheet: 17 1/2 × 23 1/2 inches (44.5 × 59.7 cm) Framed: 24 1/16 × 30 3/16 × 1 inches (61.1 × 76.6 × 2.5 cm)

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Founders Society Purchase, Mrs. James Couzens Fund

31.14

Copyright not assessed, please contact [email protected].

Markings

Signed in pencil, lower right: Emil Nolde.

Titled in pencil, center bottom margin: Dampfer. (gr. dkl.) Inscribed, lower left corner: III.6. Bottom left edge: [ ] 135 Center bottom edge: FE 8 trial proof Lower right corner: 578 | R22008 Upper left corner: 13 III 247 Upper right corner: 2117.

Watermark: VAN GELDER ZONEN

Provenance

(Ernst Arnold Galerie, Dresden, Germany)

1931-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Emil Nolde, Dampfer, 1910, Etching printed in black on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Mrs. James Couzens Fund, 31.14.

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