M21543: Primitive Man
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M21543
- People
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Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
- Title
- Primitive Man
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Urmennesket
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1905
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Norway
- Culture
- Norwegian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/252937
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Woodcut printed in black ink on off-white Japanese paper
- Technique
- Woodcut
- Dimensions
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block: 68.5 × 45.5 cm (26 15/16 × 17 15/16 in.)
sheet: 79 × 54.8 cm (31 1/8 × 21 9/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower sheet margin below right corner of image, graphite: E Munch / Lashaly [Lassally]
- inscription: lower sheet margin edge, centered, graphite: 400
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collector's mark: verso, right corner, purple stamp, apparently associated with a graphite inscription: [the stamp is in the shape of a magnifying glass with a stubby handle, not found in Lugt]
III 6/1062 - collector's mark: verso, blue stamp: P A S / - / L G S [Philip A. and Lynn G. Straus, Lugt 5642]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Lynn and Philip A. Straus, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, July 13, 1991.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- Woll b/d
- Standard Reference Number
- Woll 274, Schiefler 237
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lynn and Philip A. Straus, class of 1937
- Accession Year
- 1991
- Object Number
- M21543
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Elizabeth Prelinger, Edvard Munch: Master Printmaker, exh. cat., W. W. Norton & Company and Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum (New York and London, 1983), pl. 45
- Elizabeth Prelinger, Guide to the Exhibition "Edvard Munch: Master Printmaker. Prints from The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection", brochure, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1983), checklist
Exhibition History
- Edvard Munch: Master Printmaker, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 10/06/1983 - 11/27/1983; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, 01/29/1984 - 03/25/1984
Verification Level
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