ID 1470328
Lot 352 | EDVARD MUNCH (1863-1945)
Estimate value
£ 80 000 – 120 000
Girls on the Bridge
woodcut
1905
on wove paper
signed in pencil
a fine, richly black and even impression of this very rare woodcut
presumably an early impression printed by the artist
printing with a fine wood grain relief
with wide margins
generally in good condition
Block 26,7 x 20,7 cm. (10 ½ x 8 in.)
Sheet 37,3 x 29,4 cm. (14 5/8 x 11 ½ in.)
Provenance
Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 19-20 June 1997, lot 696.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
G. Schiefler, Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks Edvard Munchs bis 1906, Berlin, 1907, no. 233, p. 142.
G. Woll, The Complete Graphic Works, Oslo and London, 2012, no. 271, p. 234 (another impression ill.).
Exhibited
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Edvard Munch - '... aus dem modernen Seelenleben', March - May 2006, no. 248, pp. 110 (ill.; pl. 65) & 182.
| Applied technique: | Woodcut |
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| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Prints & Multiples |
| Applied technique: | Woodcut |
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| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Prints & Multiples |
| Address of auction |
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