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EDVARD MUNCH (1863-1944)
The Sick Child
drypoint with roulette and burnisher
1894
on stiff, cream wove paper
signed in pencil
a fine impression of Woll's sixth state (of seven)
with considerable burr and plate tone
printed by Felsing, Berlin, with his signature in pencil
with wide margins, probably the full sheet
in very good condition
Plate 38,5 x 29,2 cm. (1518 x 1112 in.)
Sheet 57,3 x 43,7 cm. (2278 x 1718 in.)
Provenance
Kornfeld und Klipstein, Bern, 22 June 1973, lot 2.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
G. Schiefler, Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks Edvard Munchs bis 1906, published by the author, Berlin, 1907, no. 7, p. 29.
G. Woll, The Complete Graphic Works, Oslo and London, 2012, no. 7, p. 7 (other impressions ill.).
Exhibited
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Aus der Werkstatt des Künstlers – Druckgraphik und vorbereitende Zeichnungen der Sammlung Hegewisch, March 1999 - October 2000, p. 44 (ill.) & pp. 96-97.
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Edvard Munch: '... aus dem modernen Seelenleben', March - May 2006, no. 13, pp. 112 (ill.) & 152, pl. 67.
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