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EDVARD MUNCH (1863-1944)
Self-Portrait with a Bottle of Wine ('Selvportrett ved vinen')
lithograph
1930
on cream laid paper, without watermark
signed in pencil and titled
a rare, early impression, possibly printed by the artist
before the numbered edition of approximately thirty impressions printed and inscribed by the printer Kildeborg (Nielsen)
with wide margins
some light- and mount staining
generally in good condition
Image 42,3 x 50,3 cm. (1658 x 1934 in.)
Sheet 50 x 70,2 cm. (1934 x 2758 in.)
Provenance
Christie's, London, 6 December 1984, lot 250.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
G. Woll, The Complete Graphic Works, Oslo and London, 2012, no. 712, pp. 463-464 (other impressions ill.).
Exhibited
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Edvard Munch: '... aus dem modernen Seelenleben', March - May 2006, no. 271, pp. 135 (ill.) & 183, pl. 89.
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Woll records early impressions on cream wove paper, greyish-white China paper or embossed beige paper. The latter might be the present type of support, which we would describe as a machine-made laid paper. Woll mentions that some of the first impressions, of which this appears to be one, are inscribed by the artist 'gedruckt auf eigene presse' ('printed on my own press'), which suggests that Munch printed some himself before entrusting the printer Nielsen (who by then went under the name Kildeborg) with the production of a numbered edition.

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