1895
Edition Size: unknown
Image Size: 34.5 x 27.8 cm
Sheet Size: 60 x 44 cm
Reference: Woll 23 b
Signed
Condition: Pristine
On chamois-coloured copperplate paper. Signed in pencil lower right, titled ‘Kuss’ and inscribed ‘Radierung’ in the lower right margin. Address and signature of the printer Felsing, Berlin, lower left. 34.5 x 27.8 cm on 60 x 44 cm. Inscribed ‘Mi Sch. 22b (1895)’ verso lower right.
Etching of the artist’s 1897 painting of the same name, which is in the Munch Museum Oslo.
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Before Munch’s well-known breakdown in 1909, the great Norwegian artist threw himself into printmaking with a zeal rarely seen among history’s greatest artists: not only as a master printmaker in the tradition of Rembrandt, Goya, and Cassatt (among others), but as an innovator of striking originality whose influence on subsequent printmakers still reverberates, primarily but not exclusively in woodcut.
