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Fabulous Beast (Fabelwesen (Chimera))

Emil Nolde

Fabulous Beast (Fabelwesen (Chimera))

1926

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Emil Nolde

Fabulous Beast (Fabelwesen (Chimera))

1926

Physical Qualities Color brush and tusche lithograph with scraping, Sheet: 233 x 170 mm. (9 3/16 x 6 11/16 in.) Image: 160 x 110 mm. (6 5/16 x 4 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Blanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object Number 1954.7
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1954; purchased from Ferdinand Roten, Baltimore
Jay Fisher, BMA, "German Expressionist Graphics 1905-1985," 9 August - 9 October, 1988.

Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "Prd."; lower right in graphite: "Emil Nolde"; lower left in graphite: "Fabelwesen"

Markings: CM: recto, at lower left: Blanche Adler

Artist

Emil Nolde

German, 1867-1956

German, 1867-1956
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