Det syke bar (The sick child)
Artwork details
- Artist
- Edvard Munch
- Title
- Det syke bar (The sick child)
- Date
- 1896
- Medium
- Etching and Drypoint
- Edition
- 20
- Image
- 5 7/16 x 7 3/16 inches
- Sheet
- 13 ¾ x 16 13/16 inches
- Status
- Available
- Price
- Price on request
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.
