- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- M21542
- People
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Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
- Title
- Old Man Praying
- Other Titles
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Alternate Title: Old Man at Prayer
Original Language Title: Gammel mann i bønn - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1902
- Culture
- Norwegian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/252936
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Woodcut printed in black and pale orange on off-white Japanese paper
- Technique
- Woodcut
- Dimensions
- block: 45.8 × 33 cm (18 1/16 × 13 in.)
sheet: 52 × 38.7 cm (20 1/2 × 15 1/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower right corner of sheet, graphite: E Munch / No 40
- collector's mark: verso, blue stamp: P A S / - / L G S [Philip A. and Lynn G. Straus, Lugt 5642]
- collector's mark: verso, blue stamp with graphite numbering above: [Fogg Museum accession stamp (Lugt 936)] M21542
- Provenance
- Lynn and Philip A. Straus, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, July 13, 1991.
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- State
- ii/ii
- Standard Reference Number
- Woll 205, Schiefler 173
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lynn and Philip A. Straus, class of 1937
- Copyright
- © The Munch Museum / The Munch-Ellingsen Group / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Accession Year
- 1991
- Object Number
- M21542
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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