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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2023.605
People
Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
Title
Puberty
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Pubertät
Original Language Title: Pubertet
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1902
Culture
Norwegian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/379729

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in black ink on cream wove paper
Technique
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
plate: 18.8 × 15 cm (7 3/8 × 5 7/8 in.)
sheet: 44.7 × 30.6 cm (17 5/8 × 12 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: sheet margin, below lower right corner of plate, graphite: Edv Munch
  • inscription: sheet margin, below lower left corner of plate, graphite: [illegible Felsing inscription]
  • collector's mark: verso, center, blue stamp:
    P A S / L G S [Philip A. Straus and Lynn G. Straus (Lugt 5642)]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Kaare Berntsen, Oslo] sold; to Philip A. and Lynn G. Straus, New York, 1977, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Woll a III
Standard Reference Number
Woll 186; Schiefler 164

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection
Accession Year
2023
Object Number
2023.605
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), p. 28, pl. 15
  • 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
  • Coming of Age: Egon Schiele and the Modernist Culture of Youth, brochure, Galerie St. Etienne (New York, 2005), checklist no. 39

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
  • Coming of Age: Egon Schiele and the Modernist Culture of Youth, Galerie St. Etienne, 11/15/2005 - 01/07/2006

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