2023.594: Encounter in Space
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2023.594
- People
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Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
Printed by M. W. Lassally
- Title
- Encounter in Space
- Other Titles
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Original Language Title: Møte i verdensrommet
Original Language Title: Begegnung im Weltall
Former Title: Meeting in Space - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1898-1899
- Culture
- Norwegian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/379720
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Woodcut from a sawn block in printed in black, red and greenish blue inks on off-white Japanese paper
- Technique
- Woodcut
- Dimensions
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image: 18.4 × 25.1 cm (7 1/4 × 9 7/8 in.)
sheet: 27 × 32.1 cm (10 5/8 × 12 5/8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- (not assigned): lower sheet margin to right, below block corner,graphite: Edv Munch
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collector's mark: on ragboard mount, lower left, blue ink:
P A S / - / L G S [Philip A. and Lynn G. Straus (Lugt 5642)]
- inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: W [or] M 30
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Private collection. [Achim Moeller, London], sold; to Philip A. and Lynn G. Straus, New York, 1974, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- Woll b
- Standard Reference Number
- Woll 136; Schiefler 135
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection
- Accession Year
- 2023
- Object Number
- 2023.594
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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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), pp. 82-83, 136, repr. p. 83 and p. 136 as Color Pl. 63
- 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
- Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/07/2025 - 07/27/2025
Verification Level
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