1895
Edition Size: N/A
Image Size: 13 3/4 x 16 13/16 inches
Sheet Size: 28 3/4 x 25 3/16 inches
Reference: (Woll 205 II; Schiefler 173)
Signed
Condition: Excellent
Woodcut in black and light olive green, printed from both sides of the woodblock, on firm brownish wove paper
Signed by the artist, “Edv Munch” in pencil, lower right
Image: 13 ¾ x 16 13/16 inches
Sheet: 28 3/4 x 25 3/16 inches
(Woll 205 II; Schiefler 173)
$32,500.00
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.
