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Lot 130
  • 130

Edvard Munch

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description

  • Edvard Munch
  • The Kiss IV (W. 204; S. 102/D)
  • Signed lower right, Schliefer No. 102d, 4th state of four
  • Woodcut on Japan thin paper
  • 467 by 471 mm 18 1/2 by 18 5/8 in
  • sheet 520 by 570 mm 20 1/2 by 22 1/2 in
Woodcut printed in black and greyish green, 1902, Woll's variation III, signed in pencil, annotated 'Kuss Holz I', presumably printed by Lassally in Berlin c. 1910, on tissue-thin Japan paper, framed

Condition

The print is in good condition, with wide margins, the side and lower sheet edges strengthened with a narrow band of Japan. There is a tiny circular loss to the right of the knot, pale discoloration in the margins and intermittent patches of tiny foxing along the upper and right edges of the block, a tiny tear at the upper left sheet edge related to a previous hinge. The verso has three small circular accretions (adhesive?) showing through to the recto at block top center, and stray yellow and red ink at bottom, not visible recto.
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Catalogue Note

Provenance:
John P. Klep Gallery, Houston, TX, February 15, 1977;
By descent to the present owner.