Edvard Munch

Karl Nierendorf, New York 
Acquired from the estate of the above in January 1948

This work is in fair condition. Executed on cream wove paper, laid down on card. There is a slight undulation to the sheet. The sheet was folded at some point before being laid down and there are four visible seams with associated pigment loss, one horizontal and three vertical. There are small paper losses to the extreme edges of the sheet around the upper left corner and toward the center of the right edge and three small repaired tears at center left and lower right. There is a faint stain in the upper right corner and a few scattered spots of foxing. Some light discoloration throughout.
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Karl Nierendorf was a director of the Neumann & Nierendorf gallery in Berlin, which notably held several important exhibitions of Munch's graphic work. In his correspondence with Munch he expresses an ardent admiration for the artist and reveals a desire to add more of his work to his own personal collection, which had begun with a number of Munch's prints.