1894
Edition Size: Unknown
Image Size: 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 2
Sheet Size: 22 x 14 7/8 2
Reference: Woll 005
Signed
Condition: Excellent
Drypoint, roulette, and burnisher printed in black on Japan paper
One of ten impressions in the deluxe impression before steelfacing
Signed and inscribed “E. Munch 1895 / 4th Abz [ug] – 5th Z [ustand]” in pencil, lower right
Printed by L. Angerer
Published by Meier-Graefe, Berlin, 1895
Price on Application
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.
