2012.270: Woman with Red Hair and Green Eyes
PrintsA nude woman shown from the waist up faces toward us, staring pensively, looking down and to the left. Falling down past her breasts and to her waist, her orange hair ends in flame-like curls, concealing her shoulders and arms from view. Her eyes are wide and bright pale green in contrast to the red and orange lines and shading of her hair and face. A bold red horizontal rectangle outline frames the piece on off white paper.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2012.270
- People
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Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
- Title
- Woman with Red Hair and Green Eyes
- Other Titles
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Alternate Title: The Sin
Original Language Title: Kvinne med redt hår og grenne eyne. Synden - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1901
- Culture
- Norwegian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/343040
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Lithograph printed in red, yellow, and green ink on cream Japanese paper
- Dimensions
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image: 69.6 x 40.2 cm (27 3/8 x 15 13/16 in.)
sheet: 76.5 x 48.5 cm (30 1/8 x 19 1/8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower margin of sheet below right corner of image, graphite: Edv Munch
- inscription: lower right corner of sheet, graphite: R5944
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Collection Munck, Bergen. [Galleri K, Oslo], sold [through Marlborough Gallery, London], to Philip and Lynn Straus (1983-2012); Lynn Straus, gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2012.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- Woll II2/V
- Standard Reference Number
- Woll 198, Schiefler 142
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
- 2012.270
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 02/03/2015
- Adam and Eve, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/01/2018 - 01/06/2019
Verification Level
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