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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M21546
People
Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
Title
Moonlight II
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Moonlight
Original Language Title: Måneskinn II
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1901
Culture
Norwegian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/253538

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodcut printed in black, two shades of brown and two shades of green ink on tan wove paper discolored to orange-brown
Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
image: 49.3 × 48.6 cm (19 7/16 × 19 1/8 in.)
sheet: 59 × 57.3 cm (23 1/4 × 22 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: verso, blue stamp with graphite numbering below: [Fogg Museum accession stamp (Lugt 936)] M21546

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sigurd Host. [Galleri K, Oslo], sold; to Philip and Lynn Straus, 1986, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, July 13, 1991.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/ii
Standard Reference Number
Schiefler 81B; Woll 202

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
M21546
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. 202, p. 197

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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