1896
Edition Size: Unknown
Image Size: 12 3/8 x 16 3/4 2
Sheet Size: 17 1/4 x 22 3/8 2
Signed
Condition: Good
Drypoint printed in black ink on heavy beige wove paper
Signed “E. Munch” in pencil, lower right
Signed “O. Felsing Berlin gdr.” in pencil, lower left
Annotated “44,” “136” in pencil, lower left corner
Printed by Otto Felsing, Berlin
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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.
