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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2023.583
People
Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
Printed by M. W. Lassally
Title
Moonlight I
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Måneskinn I
Original Language Title: Mondschein I
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1896
Culture
Norwegian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/343042

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodcut with gouges and fretsaw printed in black, reddish-orange, blue, and gray inks on thin Japanese paper mounted on a tan wove sheet, the mount's edges tinted to match the woman's face
Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
image: 40.8 × 47.6 cm (16 1/16 × 18 3/4 in.)
sheet: 40.8 × 52.6 cm (16 1/16 × 20 11/16 in.)
mount: 41.9 × 54 cm (16 1/2 × 21 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: right margin of the printing sheet, lower right, graphite: E Munch
  • inscription: left margin of the printing sheet, lower left, inscribed in graphite and traced in brown ink: Mondschein
  • collector's mark: verso, lower right, blue stamp: PAS / - / LGS [Philip and Lynn Straus, Lugt 5642]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Sotheby's, London, April 27, 1977] sold; to Philip A. and Lynn G. Straus, New York, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Woll b.IV
Standard Reference Number
Woll 90; Schiefler 81 a

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection
Accession Year
2023
Object Number
2023.583
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Arne Eggum, Edvard Munch: Symbols and Images, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C., 1978), p. 264
  • 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), pp. 83, 85, 86, color pl. 65
  • 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: Symbols and Images, National Gallery of Art, 11/11/1978 - 02/19/1979
  • 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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