1930
Edition Size: N/A
Image Size: 19 x 21 inches
Sheet Size: 23 1/4 x 27 inches
Reference: Woll 711.I
Signed
Condition: Excellent
Lithograph printed in black ink on medium-weight cream wove paper
Signed and dated “Edv Munch 1930” by the artist in pencil, lower right
Inscribed “et av 10 første tryk” by the artist in pencil, lower right
Inscribed “Melankolie (von den ersten 10 Drucken)” by the artist in pencil, lower left
Probably printed by Anton Peter Nielsen, Kristiania
Image: 19 x 21 inches
Sheet: 23 1/4 x 27 inches
Framed: 27 3/8 x 31 inches
(Woll 711.I)
$85,000.00
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.
