1896
Edition Size: unknown, but very rare
Image Size: 47 x 56.5 cm
Sheet Size: 55.5 x 71.1 cm
Reference: Schiefler 57; Wohl 69
Signed
Condition: Pristine
One of Munch’s most important prints; an icon of modern art.
An outstanding, early impression on bluish/gray Japon appliqué, lightly discolored (as always–see Woll) to greenish/gray. Such impressions are extraordinarily rare, and far more desirable than the ones on less absorbent white paper, which were printed a decade later.
Signed in pencil by the artist.
In excellent condition, and with a fine provenance.
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.
