Self Portrait, ca. 1917

  • Emil Nolde, German, 1867-1956

Watercolor and reed pen and black ink on japanese paper

  • Sheet: 8 1/2 × 7 inches (21.6 × 17.8 cm)

Bequest of John S. Newberry

65.230

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed, lower right: N.

John S. Newberry (New York, New York, USA)

1965-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Emil Nolde, Self Portrait, ca. 1917, watercolor and reed pen and black ink on japanese paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of John S. Newberry, 65.230.