Black and white print of a woman kissing, or biting, a downturned man on the back of the neck.
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Black and white print on wove paper of a man and woman. The woman appears from the torso up, crouching over the man’s downturned body. She has long hair that is parted in the middle and flows across her arms and the man’s head. The man’s face is obscured with only the right side of his torso and head visible. The area immediately surrounding the two individuals is darker than the upper corners of the print which feature strokes of black atop the cream color of the wove paper.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
M20231
People
Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
Title
Vampire II
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Mirror
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1895
Culture
Norwegian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/253507

Location

Location
Level 3, Room 3500, Special Exhibitions Gallery
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lithograph printed in black ink on heavy cream wove paper, mounted by the artist on coarse brown paper
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 37.5 × 54.5 cm (14 3/4 × 21 7/16 in.)
mount: 66 × 67.7 cm (26 × 26 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower margin of mounting sheet toward the right corner of printing sheet, graphite: Edvard Munch 1897
  • collector's mark: mounting sheet below lower left corner of printing sheet, red stamp (very blurred): H N [monogram; Heinrich Stinnes (Lugt 1376a)]

Provenance

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

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Woll i/x
Standard Reference Number
Woll 41, Schiefler 34

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
M20231
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
  • Gerd Woll, Edvard Munch: The Complete Graphic Works, Orfeus Publishing (Oslo, 2012), no. 41, p. 71

Exhibition History

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