1903
Edition Size: N/A
Image Size: 23 7/8 x 18 3/8 inches
Sheet Size: 27 3/8 x 20 1/8 inches
Reference: (Woll 244.I.2 (of V), Schiefler 212)
Signed
Condition: Good
Lithograph on Japan paper, laid down on thin Japan paper
Signed by the artist “Edv, Munch” in pencil, lower right
Printed by Lassally, 1903
Plate: 23 7/8 x 18 3/8 inches
Sheet: 27 3/8 x 20 1/8 inches
(Woll 244.I.2 (of V), Schiefler 212)
$200,000.00
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.
