2023.582: Man's Head in Woman's Hair
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2023.582
- People
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Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
- Title
- Man's Head in Woman's Hair
- Other Titles
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Original Language Title: Mannshode i kvinnehår
Original Language Title: Männerkopf in Frauenhaar
Alternate Title: The Mirror / Man in Woman's Hair / The Hair - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1896
- Culture
- Norwegian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/379776
Location
- Location
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Level 3, Room 3500, Special Exhibitions Gallery
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Woodcut from two blocks cut into sections printed in gray, bluish black, and deep brownish orange inks on off-white wove paper
- Technique
- Woodcut
- Dimensions
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block: 54.5 × 38.2 cm (21 7/16 × 15 1/16 in.)
sheet: 67.8 × 50.7 cm (26 11/16 × 19 15/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower sheet margin at right, graphite: Edv Munch
- collector's mark: verso, center right, blue stamp: PAS / - / LGS [Philip and Lynn Straus, Lugt 5642]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Kaare Berntsen A/S, Oslo], sold; to Philip A. and Lynn G. Straus, New York, 1975, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- Woll b or c.III.2
- Standard Reference Number
- Woll 89; Schiefler 80 b
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection
- Accession Year
- 2023
- Object Number
- 2023.582
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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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. 82-83, color pl. 62, repr. p. 83
- 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
- Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/07/2025 - 07/27/2025
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Verification Level
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