Emil Nolde
Head of a prophet1912

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Emil Nolde
Title: Head of a prophet
Place Made: Germany
Date Made: 1912
Medium: Black ink on rice paper
Dimensions: 16 1/8 x 11 3/4 in.; 41.0 x 29.8 cm
Credit Line: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number: M.82.288.352
Classification: Drawings
Collecting Area: Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Provenance: The artist (1867-1956). [Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne]; purchased 17 May 1974 (lot 449) by Robert Gore Rifkind (1928-2019), Beverly Hills; given in 1982 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.
Ackley, Clifford S.; T. Benson; Victor Carlson. Nolde: The Painter's Prints. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1995.
Chipp, Herschel B. and Karin Breuer. The Human Image in German Expressionist Graphic Art From the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation. Berkeley: University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1981.
Barnett, Vivian Endicott. The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum. Pasadena: Norton Simon Art Foundation, 2002.
Reed, Orrel P., German expressionist art: the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection: prints, drawings, illustrated books, periodicals, posters. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Emil Nolde
Title: Head of a prophet
Place Made: Germany
Date Made: 1912
Medium: Black ink on rice paper
Dimensions: 16 1/8 x 11 3/4 in.; 41.0 x 29.8 cm
Credit Line: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number: M.82.288.352
Classification: Drawings
Collecting Area: Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Provenance: The artist (1867-1956). [Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne]; purchased 17 May 1974 (lot 449) by Robert Gore Rifkind (1928-2019), Beverly Hills; given in 1982 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.
Ackley, Clifford S.; T. Benson; Victor Carlson. Nolde: The Painter's Prints. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1995.
Chipp, Herschel B. and Karin Breuer. The Human Image in German Expressionist Graphic Art From the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation. Berkeley: University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1981.
Barnett, Vivian Endicott. The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum. Pasadena: Norton Simon Art Foundation, 2002.
Reed, Orrel P., German expressionist art: the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection: prints, drawings, illustrated books, periodicals, posters. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.