Details
EDVARD MUNCH (1863-1944)
Kristiania Boheme I
etching with drypoint
1895
on wove paper
signed in pencil
a strong, black impression with much tone, probably the second state (of three)
presumably an impression aside from the edition printed by Angerer and published by Meier-Graefe
(there were ten signed impressions on Japan paper before steel-facing, and 55 unsigned ones on wove paper, and later re-prints by Felsing)
with margins
pale mount- and light-staining
Image 21,7 x 29,7 cm. (858 x 1134 in.)
Sheet 33,5 x 42,7 cm. (1314 x 1678 in.)
Provenance
Dr Ernst Hauswedell, Hamburg, 25 June 1968, lot 932.
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. 10, p. 32.
G. Woll, The Complete Graphic Works, Oslo and London, 2012, no. 15, p. 48 (another impression ill.).
Exhibited
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Edvard Munch: '... aus dem modernen Seelenleben', March - May 2006, no. 19, pp. 136 (ill.) & 154, pl. 90.
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