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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M20223
People
Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
Title
Attraction II
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Mirror
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1896
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Norway
Culture
Norwegian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/253499

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lithograph in black ink on off-white wove paper, hand-colored in blue watercolor and mounted by the artist on coarse brown paper
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 38.3 x 60.4 cm (15 1/16 x 23 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: E Munch 1897
  • inscription: on lower margin of mount below the right corner of the sheet, graphite: E Munch 1897
  • collector's mark: Presumably the sheet is stamped with Stinnes's red monogram on the mount below and to the left of the left corner of the print, but because the ensemble is overmatted and framed, the mark cannot be seen.: H S [monogram; Heinrich Stinnes (Lugt 1376a)]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Kaare Bertsen A/S, Oslo, 1983].

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Woll I/II
Standard Reference Number
Woll 76, Schiefler 66

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Lynn and Philip A. Straus, Class of 1937
Object Number
M20223
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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
  • Jay A. Clarke, Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth, exh. cat., Yale University Press (U.S.) and The Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2009), p. 134, fig. 142, ill. (color)

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
  • Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety & Myth, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 02/15/2009 - 04/26/2009

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