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Darkly colorful print on paperboard of a woman kissing, or biting, a downturned man on the back of the neck.

Black, white, blue, and red print of a man and woman. The woman appears from the torso up, crouching over the man’s downturned body. She has long, red hair that is parted in the middle and flows across her arms and the man’s head. The man’s face is obscured with only the right side of his torso and head visible. His dark hair and clothing are made of similar shades of black and blue. The area immediately surrounding the two individuals is darker than the upper corners of the print which feature strokes of black and red.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2023.569
People
Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
Title
Vampire II
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Vampyr II
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1895-1902
Culture
Norwegian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/379773

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lithograph in crayon and tusche printed in black ink with hand coloring in red, pink, blue, green, and purple, on gray-green thin paperboard
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
image: 38.5 × 55 cm (15 3/16 × 21 5/8 in.)
sheet: 46.8 × 60.5 cm (18 7/16 × 23 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right corner of sheet, graphite: X
  • inscription: lower right sheet margin, graphite: E Munch 1896
  • inscription: lower left, graphite: Sch. 34 II.
  • collector's mark: lower left, red stamp: HS [monogram, mark of Heinrich Stinnes; Lugt 1376a]
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: [illegible text]
  • inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: [illegible text]
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: [illegible text]
  • collector's mark: verso, lower right, blue ink: PAS / - / LGS [Philip and Lynn Straus, Lugt 5642]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Heinrich Stinnes, Cologne (Lugt 1376a). Private collection, Norway, 1930s. [Kaare Berntsen, 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 I/X
Standard Reference Number
Woll 41; Schiefler 34

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection
Accession Year
2023
Object Number
2023.569
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. 109-104, repr. p. 103 and 142 as Color Pl. 90
  • 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

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