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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M22070
People
Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
Title
Death in the Sickroom
Other Titles
Alternate Title: The Death Chamber
Original Language Title: Døden i sykeværelset
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1896
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Norway
Culture
Norwegian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299912

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lithograph printed in black ink with added rose, dark blue, and pale blue watercolor, white gouache, and black crayon on off-white modern laid paper
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 39.6 × 56.4 cm (15 9/16 × 22 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower edge, right corner, graphite: Edv. Munch
  • collector's mark: verso, blue stamp with graphite numbering below:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / M22070
    [Fogg Museum accession stamp (Lugt 936)]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Woll a, only state
Standard Reference Number
Woll 65, Schiefler 73

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Lynn and Philip A. Straus
Accession Year
1993
Object Number
M22070
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Hilliard T. Goldfarb, Art's Lament: Creativity in the Face of Death, exh. cat., Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, MA, 1994), cat. no. 14
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • James Cuno, ed., A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions by the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 2000), p. 69, ill. (color)
  • "Lugt 5642: Philip Albert Straus et Lynn Gross Straus", Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d'Estampes, Fondation Custodia (June 2020), http://www.marquesdecollections.fr/detail.cfm/marque/13157, accessed July 20, 2020

Exhibition History

  • Deutsche Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus dem Busch-Reisinger Museum, Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, 10/23/1982 - 01/16/1983; Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin 30, 02/10/1983 - 04/17/1983; Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 05/08/1983 - 06/26/1983
  • Art's Lament: Creativity in the Face of Death, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 09/09/1994 - 10/23/1994; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, 11/07/1994 - 12/31/1994

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