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EDVARD MUNCH (1863-1944)

Lot 15
13.10.2023 19:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1027846
Lot 15 | EDVARD MUNCH (1863-1944)
Estimate value
£ 400 000 – 600 000
EDVARD MUNCH (1863-1944)

Vampyr II

lithograph and woodcut in colours

1895-1902

on thin laid Japan paper

signed 'E Munch' in pencil (lower right margin)

a superb impression of Woll's sixth variant (of ten), with strong contrasts and rich colours

the lithograph keystone printed in black, the second stone in red, and the sawn woodblock in blue, green and ochre

printed by M. W. Lassally, Berlin, between 1902 and 1914

Image 380 x 555 mm.

Sheet 448 x 627 mm.





Provenance

Galleri K, Oslo.

Acquired from the above on 25 September 1990, and thence by descent to the present owners.



Literature

G. Schiefler, Edvard Munch-Das graphische Werk 1906-1926, Berlin, 1974, no. 34, pp. 51 & 52 (another impression illustrated p. 158).

G. Woll, Edvard Munch-Complete Graphic Works, Oslo, 2012, no. 41, pp. 70-73 (another impression of this variant illustrated p. 71).



ADDITIONAL SELECTED LITERATURE:

M.-H. Wood, ed., Edvard Munch, The Frieze of Life, exh. cat., London, 1993, no. 22, p. 70 (another impression illustrated).

E. Prelinger & M. Parke-Taylor, The Symbolist Prints of Edvard Munch – The Vivian and David Campbell Collection, exh. cat., Toronto, 1997, no. 48, pp. 105-111 (another impression of this variant illustrated p. 110).

G. Woll, Edvard Munch - A Genius of Printmaking, exh. cat., Zurich, 2013, no. 137, p. 185, (another impression of this variant illustrated).

D. Buchart & K.A. Schröder, eds., Edvard Munch, Love, Death, Loneliness, exh. cat., Vienna, 2016, no. 77, p. 145 (another impression of this variant illustrated).

J. Lloyd & R. Heller, Munch and Expressionism, exh. cat, New York, 2016, pp. 101 & 102 (another impression illustrated).

G. Bartrum, ed., Edvard Munch: love and angst, exh. cat., London, 2019, no. 37, p. 89 (another impression of this variant illustrated).
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