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Colorful print on wove paper of a woman kissing, or biting, a downturned man on the back of the neck.

Orange, blue, and green print of a man and woman. The woman’s arms and head are visible as she crouches over the man’s downturned body. She has long, orange hair that is parted in the middle and flows across her arms and the man’s head. The man’s face is obscured with the right side of his torso and head visible. His head, along with the face and arms of the woman, are lightly sketched and less defined than the surrounding area. The area surrounding the two individuals is dark blue (matching the man’s body) while the upper corners are green.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2023.570
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/379775

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lithograph printed in red-orange and gray and woodblock jigsaw block printed in pale orange, green, and blue on heavy white wove paper
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
image: 38.7 × 55.7 cm (15 1/4 × 21 15/16 in.)
sheet: 60 × 80 cm (23 5/8 × 31 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left sheet corner, graphite: 11
  • inscription: lower left sheet corner, graphite: 195-63
  • collector's mark: verso, right center, blue ink: PAS / - / LGS [mark of Philip and Lynn Straus]
  • collector's mark: verso, center, blue stamp: Munch-museet / 1968 / Bo nr. [handwritten, black ink:] 195-24 [struckthrough] / [handwritten, black ink:] 567-11 / Sch. nr.
  • collector's mark: verso, left, black stamp: Fra Edvard Munchs / testamentariske gave / OSLO KOMMUNE

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edvard Munch, bequest; to city of Oslo, 1944. Munch Museum, Oslo, traded, September 1971. Philip A. and Lynn G. Straus, New York, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Woll VI
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
2023.570
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. 103-104, 106, repr. p. 103 and 143 as Color Pl. 91
  • 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
  • Symbolism and the Austrian Avant Garde, Galerie St. Etienne, 11/16/1993 - 01/08/1994

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