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On strong chamois handmade paper. Signed on the lower right, titled on the lower middle.
Schiefler-Mosel estimates the total edition to be “at least 20 to 30 copies.”
Other copies are in the following collections: Los Angeles County Museum; The Robert Gore Rifkind Collection; Museum of Modern Art, MOMA, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Art Institute of Chicago; British Museum, London; The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham.
In the series of woodcut portrait heads created between 1910 and 1913, there are only a few named portraits. Most bear general titles or refer to a “type” from Nolde’s world of experience. In connection with his preoccupation with biblical scenes, Nolde also dedicated a woodcut portrait head to one of these types: “Prophet.” The seer appears to be looking seriously beneath his strong eyebrows, which, like his beard and mouth, form an arch with ends drawn down to the left and right: gloomy—and yet one of Emil Nolde’s most haunting woodcut compositions.
