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A color woodcut depicting two figures by a body of water.

A color woodcut showing a standing female figure wearing a long white dress with her back to the viewer. She stands on the shore facing outward towards a dark colored body of water. Next to the standing figure, and facing the viewer, is a crouching figure in a black robe with an obscured face. The colors on the paper are flat and graphic.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2012.273
People
Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
Printed by M. W. Lassally
Title
Two Women on the Shore
Other Titles
Former Title: Women on the Shore
Original Language Title: To kvinner ved stranden
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1898
Culture
Norwegian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/343027

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodcut printed in black, dark blue, brown and green ink, with added green crayon to fill in the missing portion of the green block, on cream Japanese paper
Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
image: 45.6 × 51.2 cm (17 15/16 × 20 3/16 in.)
sheet: 53.6 × 60 cm (21 1/8 × 23 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower sheet margin below right corner of image, graphite: E Munch
  • inscription: lower right corner of sheet, graphite, erased and virtually illegible: RT4180

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mrs. Anna Kayser, Bergen Norway. [Sotheby's, London, April 27, 1976, lot 150], sold; to Philip and Lynn Straus (1976-2012); Lynn Straus, gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2012.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Woll b.II.2
Standard Reference Number
Woll 133, Schiefler 117

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lynn G. Straus in memory of Philip A. Straus
Accession Year
2012
Object Number
2012.273
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Elizabeth Prelinger, Edvard Munch: Master Printmaker, exh. cat., W. W. Norton & Company and Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum (New York and London, 1983), pl. 64
  • 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

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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