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Celline naken (Celline Nude) by Edvard Munch

Celline naken (Celline Nude)

Edvard Munch

Artwork details

Title
Celline naken (Celline Nude)
Description

Drypoint printed in black ink on medium-weight cream wove paper
Signed by the artist in pencil, lower right
Unidentified collectors stamp lower right corner recto; inscribed with collector’s inventory number in pencil, upper left corner verso
Inscribed “58 / Celline, nackt” in pencil, bottom left corner;
“Sch. 355 b / nur etwa 20 abzüge 1912 (only about 20 copies 1912)" in pencil, bottom center
Printed by Wittman or Wilh. Scheels Klisjéanstalt, Kristiania
Image: 10 3/8 x 8 1/8 inches
Sheet: 17 7/8 x 12 5/8 inches
Framed: 24 x 19 1/2 inches
(Woll 477) (Schiefler 355)

*Note: The Schiefler catalogue dates this print to 1912; according to Woll, it was executed in 1914.

Date
1914
Medium
Drypoint
Edition
N/A
Signature
Signed
Catalogue Raisonne
(Woll 477) (Schiefler 355)
Image
10 3/8 x 8 1/8 inches
Sheet
17 7/8 x 12 5/8 inches
Status
Available
Price
$46,500.00
The Artist

Edvard Munch

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.

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