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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2023.578
People
Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
Title
The Sick Child I
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Det syke barn I
Original Language Title: Das kranke Kind I
Alternate Title: Sick Girl
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1896
Culture
Norwegian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/379743

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lithograph printed from four stones twice in red and once in olive-tan and blue (discolored?) on beige wove paper
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
image: 41.9 × 56.7 cm (16 1/2 × 22 5/16 in.)
sheet: 52.7 × 67 cm (20 3/4 × 26 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, graphite: E Munch
  • inscription: lower left, graphite: Krankes Madchen
  • inscription: in stone, lower right: E Munch
  • collector's mark: verso, lower right, blue ink stamp: PAS / LGS [Philip and Lynn Straus; Lugt 5642]
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 56 [?]
  • inscription: in the red key stone (Woll gives this as A2/2), at lower right corner: E Munch .

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Kaare Berntsen A/S, Oslo], sold; to Philip A. and Lynn G. Straus, New York, 1974, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Woll X a/b
Standard Reference Number
Woll 72 X.a; Schiefler 59 III

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection
Accession Year
2023
Object Number
2023.578
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. 262
  • 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. 76, 77, color pl. 50, also repr. p. 76
  • 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
  • Gerd Woll, Edvard Munch: The Complete Graphic Works, Orfeus Publishing (Oslo, 2012), no. 72, p. 101

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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