(Nolde, Schleswig 1867–1956 Seebüll)
Portrait of a woman (light green) / Head of a young woman, in profile to the left, c. 1910–11, signed Nolde, watercolor and ink on thin handmade paper, 27.5 x 21.5 cm

The work is registered in the Nolde Foundation Seebüll and will be noted for inclusion in the forthcoming Nolde Catalogue Raisonné.

The Nolde Archive confirmed the authenticity of the work in April 2024.
Certificate from Dr. Manfred Reuther, Seebüll, 14 January 2009 in copy

Provenance:
Emil Nolde Foundation, Seebüll (until 1972)
Galerie Hoffmann, Hamburg
Sale Sotheby’s, London, 2 July 1980, lot 328
Private Collection, London
Sale Ketterer, Munich, 12 December 2009, lot 102
Private Collection, South Germany
Private Collection, North Rhine-Westphalia

“I have been asked on many occasions if I had no interest in people, as it seems I pay too little attention. 'Very much so', I replied, 'perhaps just different than what is common practice.' The eye captures the impression in a twelfth of a second, and further lingering on the object is private amusement . But even when you look at people just halfway, they still become simpler and larger. […] Laugh, cheer, cry or be happy, you are my pictures and the sound of your voices, the nature of your characters in all diversity, these are my colors.”

Emil Nolde