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Edvard Munch: Love, Loss, and the Cycle of Life
Edvard Munch: Love, Loss, and the Cycle of Life
Edvard Munch
The way Munch represented women in his art was bound up with the representation of feelings, the soul; and of course, it was coupled with the traumatic childhood memories he had of his dying mother and sister. Women: loving, but vampiric. Seductive, but entrapping. Munch’s complicated relationship with women meant complicated muses.
Image Credit:
To mennesker, De ensomme (Two Human Beings, The Lonely Ones) (Woll 13), 1894, drypoint, 11 3/4 x 14 1/4 inches
He wanted to make a perfect portrait of me but each time he began on an oil painting he destroyed it, because he was not happy with it. He had more success with the lithographs, and the stones that he used were sent up to our room in the Sans Souci Hotel in Berlin accompanied by a note that said: "Here is the stone that fell from my heart."
Eva Mudocci
Trøst (Consolation)
Edvard Munch
1894
Image: 8 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches Sheet: 12 1/2 x 20 inches Framed: 20 1/8 x 22 7/8 inc
Drypoint printed in black ink on Holland paper
Signed by the artist “Edv, Munch” in pencil, lower right Signed “O Felsing” by the printer, lower left Printed by O Felsing (Woll 6 b.V; Schiefler 6)
Edvard Munch
Dagen Derpå (The Day After)
1894
Image: 8 1/8 x 11 5/8 inches Sheet: 16 3/8 x 20 1/8 inches Framed: 21 1/4 x 23 5/8 inches
Drypoint and open bite printed in brownish black ink on heavy cream paper
Signed by the artist in pencil, lower right Signed by the printer in pencil, lower left Printed by Otto Felsing, Berlin (Woll 10.VI) (Schiefler 15)
To mennesker. De ensomme (Two human beings; The lonely ones)
Edvard Munch
1894
Image: 6 1/8 x 8 7/16 inches Sheet: 12 ½ x 15 1/8 inches
Drypoint printed on velvet paper
Signed by the artist in pencil, lower right (Woll 13 VI; Schiefler 20)
Edvard Munch
Løsrivelse II / Separation II
1896
Image: 16 3/16 x 24 5/8 inches Sheet: 21 x 30 9/16 inches Framed: 26 7/16 x 35 inches
Lithograph on Japanese paper
Inscribed by sister Inger Munch, “Solgt av Inger Munch. 1947”(Sold by Inger Munch), lower right (Woll 078 I.b) (Schiefler 68)
©Munch Museum, Oslo
Weib (Woman/Sphinx)
Edvard Munch
1899
Image: 18 1/4 x 23 1/2 inches Sheet: 19 5/8 x 25 1/2 inches Framed: 31 3/8 x 36 5/8 inches
Lithograph printed on heavy buff wove paper
Stamped "Fra Edvard Munchs testamentariske gave OSLO KOMMUNE" in ink, verso Stamped and inscribed "Munch-Museet, Munch-museet 1968, Bo nr. 238-42, Sch. nr. ________" in ink, verso Printed by Petersen & Waitz (Woll 147.II) (Schieffler 122)
Edvard Munch
Die Brosche. Eva Mudocci
1903
Plate: 23 7/8 x 18 3/8 inches Sheet: 27 3/8 x 20 1/8 inches Framed: 36 x 28 1/2 inches
Lithograph on Japan paper, laid down on thin Japan paper
Signed by the artist “Edv, Munch” in pencil, lower right Printed by Lassally, 1903 (Woll 244.I.2 (of V), Schiefler 212)
Celline naken (Celline Nude)
Edvard Munch
1914
Image: 10 3/8 x 8 1/8 inches Sheet: 17 7/8 x 12 5/8 inches Framed: 24 x 19 1/2 inches
Drypoint printed in black ink on medium-weight cream wove paper
Signed by the artist in pencil, lower right Unidentified collectors stamp lower right corner recto; inscribed with collector’s inventory number in pencil, upper left corner verso Inscribed “58 / Celline, nackt” in pencil, bottom left corner; “Sch. 355 b / nur etwa 20 abzüge 1912 (only about 20 copies 1912)" in pencil, bottom center Printed by Wittman or Wilh. Scheels Klisjéanstalt, Kristiania (Woll 477) (Schiefler 355) *Note: The Schiefler catalogue dates this print to 1912; according to Woll, it was executed in 1914.
Gråtende ung kvinne ved sengen (Weeping Young Woman by the Bed)
Edvard Munch
1930
Image: 15 x 14 inches Sheet: 25 3/16 x 25 7/16 inches Framed: 28 x 27 3/4 inches
Lithograph printed in black ink on cream wove paper
Signed "Edvard Munch" in pencil, lower right Printed by Anton Peter Nielsen, Kristiania (Woll 713)
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