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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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