THE COLLECTION
Emil Nolde (German, 1867–1956)
Young Couple (Junges Paar)
- Date:
- (1913)
- Medium:
- Lithograph
- Dimensions:
- composition: 24 1/2 x 19 13/16" (62.2 x 50.3 cm); sheet (irreg.): 27 3/16 x 22 1/2" (69 x 57.1 cm)
- Paper:
- Cream, smooth, wove.
- Publisher:
- unpublished
- Printer:
- The artist, Westphalen, Flensburg, Germany
- Edition:
- 112 in 68 color variations; plus several T.P.
- Credit Line:
- Purchase
- Copyright:
- © Nolde Stiftung Seebüll, Germany
- Reference:
- Sch.-M. (L)52.
- MoMA Number:
- 344.1941
- Themes:
- Primitivism, Sex
- Techniques:
- Lithography
German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse
March 27–July 11, 2011
Nolde, a prolific and highly innovative printmaker, frequently developed his lithographs through several color variants. His subject here is the tension between the sexes; different color combinations suggest different emotional readings. These are three from a total of sixty-eight different color variants of this image.