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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2023.581
People
Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
Title
On the Waves of Love
Other Titles
Original Language Title: På kjaerlighetens bølger
Original Language Title: Meer der Liebe
Alternate Title: Lovers in Waves / The Sea of Love / Waves
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1896
Culture
Norwegian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/379779

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lithograph printed in black ink on grayish white China paper
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
image: 31 × 41.9 cm (12 3/16 × 16 1/2 in.)
sheet: 34.8 × 46.9 cm (13 11/16 × 18 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower sheet margin below the right corner of the image, graphite: Edv Munch
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 51
  • collector's mark: verso, lower left, blue stamp, with number in graphite on a blue stamped line: Munch-museet / 1968 / Bo nr. 213-20 / Sch. nr.[followed by a stamped line, and all within a rectangular borderline]
  • collector's mark: verso, lower left, blue stamp; the same stamp is on the ragboard mount.:
    P A S / - / L G S [Philip A. and Lynn G. Straus (Lugt 5642)]
  • stamp: verso, center, black ink: MUNCH MUSEET
  • stamp: verso, center, blue ink: Fra Edvard Munchs / testamentariske gave / OSLO KOMMUNE
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: KBO
  • inscription: lower left, graphite: 213-27

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edvard Munch, bequest; to City of Oslo, 1944. Munch Museet, traded for two paintings, September 1974. [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 a/c V/V
Standard Reference Number
Woll 81; Schiefler 71 IV

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection
Accession Year
2023
Object Number
2023.581
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. 49-50, pl. 30
  • 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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