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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M21540
People
Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
Title
Kristiania Bohemians I
Other Titles
Former Title: Christiana-Boheme I
Original Language Title: Kristiania-Boheme I
Alternate Title: Drinking Bohemians
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1895
Culture
Norwegian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/253497

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint with plate tone printed in black ink on tan wove paper
Technique
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 21.6 × 30 cm (8 1/2 × 11 13/16 in.)
sheet: 33.7 × 49.3 cm (13 1/4 × 19 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in lower margin, centered below image, graphite: Aus der Kristiania boheme [with a small curved mark above the m; apparently in Munch's handwriting]
  • inscription: lower margin, below right corner of the plate, graphite: E Munch 4t Ab. 2 Z / 1895 [apparently in Munch's handwriting]
  • collector's mark: lower right corner of sheet, pale red stamp: HS [monogram, Heinrich Stinnes (Lugt 1376a)]
  • collector's mark: verso, black stamp: I. L. L. / OSLO [within a rectangular border; Ingrid Langaard; not in Lugt]
  • 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 below: [Fogg Museum accession stamp (Lugt 936)] M21535 / 40
  • inscription: verso, lower right corner, graphite: 84.020

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Julius Stern. Heinrich Stinnes (Lugt 1376a), sale [Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern, June 20-22, 1938, lot 843]. Ingrid Langaard, sale [Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, June 21, 1984, lot 4]. [Marlborough Gallery, London] sold; to Philip and Lynn Straus, July 1984, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 1991

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
iii/iii
Standard Reference Number
Schiefler 10 IIc; Woll 15b

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
M21540
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Moderne Graphik der Sammlung Heinrich Stinnes, auct. cat., Gutekunst and Klipstein (Bern, June 20-21, 1938), lot 843
  • 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. 11
  • 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
  • The Collection of Works by Edvard Munch formed by Ingrid Lindbäack Langaard and sold for the benefit of the Ingrid Lindbäck Langaard Foundation, auct. cat., Galerie Kornfeld (Bern, June 21, 1984), lot 4
  • Gerd Woll, Edvard Munch: The Complete Graphic Works, Orfeus Publishing (Oslo, 2012), no. 15, p. 48

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
  • Munch and Kirchner: Anxiety and Expression, Yale University Art Gallery, 02/16/2024 - 06/23/2024

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