Red and Yellow Poppies with a Blue Delphinium

Emil Nolde

c. 1930/1940

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Medium

watercolor (applied recto and verso) on japan paper

Dimensions

overall: 27.8 x 45.4 cm (10 15/16 x 17 7/8 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-W

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Alexander M. and Judith W. Laughlin, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1990.23.1

About the Artist

Emil Nolde

Emil Nolde, born Hans Emil Hansen on August 7, 1867, near the village of Nolde in what was then Prussian Schleswig (now Denmark), grew up on a farm amid devout Protestant Danish and Frisian peasant parents. The youngest of four brothers, he apprenticed as a woodcarver and illustrator in Flensburg from 1884 to 1891, working in furniture factories before studying at the School of Applied Arts in Kar...

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