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Collections

Emil Nolde
Head of a Man in Darkness (Self-Portrait)1915 (1907)

Not on view
Lithograph portrait of a bald head emerging from a dense black field on tan paper, with loose white marks suggesting downcast eyes and facial features

Emil Nolde, Head of a Man in Darkness (Self-Portrait), 1915 (1907), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Emil Nolde
Title
Head of a Man in Darkness (Self-Portrait)
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1915 (1907)
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Image: 23 5/8 x 17 in. (60.01 x 43.18 cm); Sheet: 24 x 17 in. (60.96 x 43.18 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.230
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
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.

  • Mosel, Christel; Urban, Martin; Schiefler, Gustav. Emil Nolde: das graphische Werk. Köln: DuMont, 1995-1996.
  • 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.
Copyright
© Nolde Stiftung Seebüll, Germany