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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M21543
People
Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
Title
Primitive Man
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Urmennesket
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
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
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
  • inscription: lower sheet margin below right corner of image, graphite: E Munch / Lashaly [Lassally]
  • inscription: lower sheet margin edge, centered, graphite: 400
  • 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
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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

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