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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2023.603
People
Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
Title
Fertility
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Fruktbarhet
Original Language Title: Fruchtbarkeit
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1900-1901
Culture
Norwegian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/379727

Location

Location
Level 3, Room 3500, Special Exhibitions Gallery
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodcut with hand coloring on Japan paper
Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
image: 42.2 × 51.8 cm (16 5/8 × 20 3/8 in.)
sheet: 50.8 × 64.5 cm (20 × 25 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, graphite: 7
  • inscription: lower right, graphite: Til professor Schreiner med hjertelig / dank for god hjelper i min skydom juli 1943 /Edvard Munch

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The artist, to Professor Kristian Schreiner (1874-1957), July 1943. [Kaare Bertsen, Oslo], sold; to Philip A. and Lynn G. Straus, New York, 1978, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Woll b.I
Standard Reference Number
Woll 160; Schiefler 110 II

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection
Accession Year
2023
Object Number
2023.603
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), pp. 72-73, repr. p. 72 as Pl. 47
  • 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

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