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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M20228
People
Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
Title
Separation II
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Mirror
Original Language Title: Løsrvelse II
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1896
Culture
Norwegian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/253530

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lithograph printed in black ink with graphite additions on blue wove paper, discolored to brown, mounted by the artist on coarse brown paper
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 39.8 × 59.8 cm (15 11/16 × 23 9/16 in.)
frame: 84 × 104.1 × 3.8 cm (33 1/16 × 41 × 1 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: on brown maounting paper below the lower right corner of the printing paper, graphite: Edv Munch 1897
  • collector's mark: The print is framed and the mark cannot be seen, but undoubtedly there is a red stamp at the lower left of the brown mounting sheet.: H S [monogram; Heinrich Stinnes (Lugt 1376a)]

Provenance

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

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Woll a/b I/II
Standard Reference Number
Woll 78, Schiefler 68

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
M20228
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. 135, fig. 143, ill.
  • Gerd Woll, Edvard Munch: The Complete Graphic Works, Orfeus Publishing (Oslo, 2012), no. 78, p. 109

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
  • 32Q: 2700 Impressionism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/11/2016 - 03/16/2017

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