ID 1470325
Lot 338 | EDVARD MUNCH (1863-1944)
Estimate value
£ 120 000 – 180 000
The Sick Child I ('Det syke barn I')
lithograph printed in colours
1896
on heavy, ivory-coloured Japan paper
signed in red crayon, inscribed N. 1 in blue crayon
a fine impression of this important, early lithograph
printed by Auguste Clot, Paris, from four stones in black, grey, lemon yellow and oxblood red
Woll's variant X.c, with the printed signature at lower right
with wide margins, generally in good condition
Image 42,1 x 57 cm. (16 ½ in. x 22 ½ in.)
Sheet 56 x 68,8 cm. (22 x 27 in.)
Provenance
Private Collection, Norway.
Christie's, London, 2 July 1987, lot 574.
Acquired after the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
G. Schiefler, Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks Edvard Munchs bis 1906, published by the author, Berlin, 1907, no. 59, p. 63.
G. Woll, The Complete Graphic Works, Oslo and London, 2012, no. 72, pp. 101-103 (this impression cited; other impressions illustrated).
Exhibited
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Aus der Werkstatt des Künstlers – Druckgraphik und vorbereitende Zeichnungen der Sammlung Hegewisch, March - October 1999, p. 45 (ill.), pp. 68-98.
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Edvard Munch: Das kranke Kind – Die graphischen Fassungen, March - June 2002, no. 15, p. 40.
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Edvard Munch: '... aus dem modernen Seelenleben', March - May 2006, no. 214, pp. 114 (ill.; pl. 69) & 180.
| Applied technique: | Lithography |
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| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Prints & Multiples |
| Applied technique: | Lithography |
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| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Prints & Multiples |
| Address of auction |
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