- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2012.261
- People
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Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
- Title
- Woman's Head against the Shore
- Other Titles
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Former Title: Girl's Head on the Shore
Original Language Title: Kvinnehode mot stranden - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1899
- Culture
- Norwegian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/343026
- Location
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Level 3, Room 3600, University Research Gallery
View this object's location on our interactive map - Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Woodcut printed in turquoise-green and pale and dark orange ink on off-white wove paper
- Technique
- Woodcut
- Dimensions
- image: 46 x 41 cm (18 1/8 x 16 1/8 in.)
sheet: 60.2 x 48.2 cm (23 11/16 x 19 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower margin below right corner of block, graphite: Edv. Munch
- inscription: verso, graphite: 66
- inscription: lower right corner of sheet, graphite: 1 [in a circle]
- Provenance
- SPB NY. Philip and Lynn Straus (1972-2012); Lynn Straus, gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2012.
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- State
- ii/ii
- Standard Reference Number
- Woll 152, Schiefler 129
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lynn G. Straus in memory of Philip A. Straus
- Copyright
- © The Munch Museum / The Munch-Ellingsen Group / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Accession Year
- 2012
- Object Number
- 2012.261
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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