A color print of a mountain range with two distinct peaks in the form of a postcard, on white paper.
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The print show two mountains of uneven height in brown highlighted with red and white. The shorter of the peaks on the left has a female face, strokes of reddish-brown highlighted with white descend from the craggy top. Fingers of a hand clutch the left side. The higher peak has a male face facing left, the features are long, white strokes descend from the sides and below a long broad nose. An arm reaches across to the left, the hand holds a gold chain. In the lower left, two cliffs with human faces emerge from a field of green.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2005.180.7
People
Emil Nolde, German (Nolde, Germany 1867 - 1956 Seebüll, Germany)
Title
Cima della Pala and the Vezzana
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Cima della Pala und die Vezzana
Series/Book Title: Mountain Postcards
Classification
Prints
Work Type
postcard, print
Date
c. 1897
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/4639

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Photomechanical print on white wove paper
Technique
Photomechanical print
Dimensions
9 x 14 cm (3 9/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: recto, l.c., graphite, handwritten: Comment va-t-il avec Caroline, / est-ce que'elle est levée? / Gust.
  • inscription: verso, c.c., graphite, handwritten: Melle Josephine Funck / Neudorf-Luxembourg
  • inscription: verso, l.r., graphite, handwritten (in another hand): WF
  • stamp: verso, l.l., black ink, postmark: Zürich/ 16.IV.98
  • stamp: verso, u.r., black ink, postmark: Luxembourg-Gare/17.IV.98
  • stamp: verso, c.c., black ink, postmark: Luxembourg-Ville/ 18.4.98

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Walter Dienger, Germany, Sale, 2005.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Reuther 28

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Barbara Butts and Michael Parke-Taylor in honor of Sir Alan Bowness
Copyright
© Nolde Stiftung Seebüll, Germany
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
2005.180.7
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Printed at l.l.: F. Killinger, Zürich. Nr. 28.

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1440 Secessionism: Munich, Vienna, Berlin (Expressionism), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/03/2019 - 06/03/2021

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