1896
Edition Size: N/A
Image Size: 16 3/16 x 24 5/8 inches
Sheet Size: 21 x 30 9/16 inches
Reference: (Woll 078 I.b) (Schiefler 68)
Unsigned
Condition: Pristine
Lithograph on Japanese paper
Inscribed by sister Inger Munch, “Solgt av Inger Munch. 1947”(Sold by Inger Munch), lower right
Image: 16 3/16 x 24 5/8 inches
Sheet: 21 x 30 9/16 inches
Framed: 26 7/16 x 35 inches
(Woll 078 I.b) (Schiefler 68)
$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.
