The portrait shows the actress and later jazz photographer Stephanie Wiesand. Nolde met her in 1947 during a holiday in St. Peter-Ording. Impressed by her, he produced three watercolour portraits, one of which he gave her as a gift in 1949. He had previously written to her about them in a letter: "Zwei der Bilder sind hier angeheftet im Rahmen, lebendig frisch u. Leuchtend wirkend. Am Profilbild malte ich ein wenig, es ist so gut wie die anderen auch.".
Watercolour on Japan paper. 45,5 × 35,3 cm
(17 ⅞ × 13 ⅞ in.). Signed lower left: Nolde. The watercolour is registered as number Fr.A.3899 in the archive of the Nolde Stiftung Seebüll and will be included in the catalogue raisonné of watercolours and drawings of Emil Nolde. Creases. [3164] Framed
Provenance
Stiftung Seebüll Ada und Emil Nolde, Seebüll / Private Collection, Cologne (acquired 1960 from the above-mentioned)
The portrait shows the actress and later jazz photographer Stephanie Wiesand. Nolde met her in 1947 during a holiday in St. Peter-Ording. Impressed by her, he produced three watercolour portraits, one of which he gave her as a gift in 1949. He had previously written to her about them in a letter: "Zwei der Bilder sind hier angeheftet im Rahmen, lebendig frisch u. Leuchtend wirkend. Am Profilbild malte ich ein wenig, es ist so gut wie die anderen auch.".
