{{Short description|1914 painting by Ado Vabbe}} {{notability|date=June 2016}} {{Infobox artwork | image =Ado Vabbe - Paraphrase E 1914 TKM 3095B.jpg |caption=(image viewable via [http://muis.ee/en_GB/museaalview/1378256 museum record]) | other_language_1 = Estonian | other_title_1 = Parafraas E | title=Paraphrase E | artist=Ado Vabbe | year=1914 | type=pastel on paper | height_metric=30.5 | width_metric=37.5 | metric_unit=cm | imperial_unit=in | city=Tartu | museum=Tartu Art Museum }} '''''Paraphrase E''''' ({{langx|et|Parafraas E}}) is one of a series of avant-garde drawings called ''paraphrases'' by Ado Vabbe in the Tartu Art Museum.<ref>[http://www.muis.ee/museaalview/1378256 museum record]</ref>

The drawing shows a set of lines that act as partial contours of possible images, such as faces and the rear end of a horse. Ado Vabbe was the first to bring abstraction to Estonia after studying with Vassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc in Munich from 1911 to 1923. The German Expressionist Group ''Der Blaue Reiter'' had a great influence on his own work, and his "paraphrases" influenced young artists in Estonia.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=r73fmcC5itkC&pg=PA43 Ado Vabbe] discussed by Eda Sepp in ''Estonian Non-conformist art from the Soviet occupation in 1944 to Perestroika'', Chapter 2 in ''Art of the Baltics: The Struggle for Freedom of Artistic Expression under the Soviets, 1945-1991'', edited by Jane Voorhees, Alla Rosenfeld and Norton T. Dodge, exhibition catalog Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2001/2002, {{ISBN|978-0813530420}}</ref>

== References == {{Reflist}} *[https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2063607/EST_280_009.html Paraphrase A] in Europeana website *[http://muis.ee/en_GB/museaalview/1617495 Paraphrase A/B] *[http://muis.ee/en_GB/museaalview/1840583 Paraphrase III] *[http://muis.ee/en_GB/museaalview/1617500 Paraphrase C/D] *[http://muis.ee/en_GB/museaalview/1488248 Paraphrase Pea]

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Category:1910s in art Category:Estonian art

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