Lot 95
  • 95

Edvard Munch

Estimate
850,000 - 1,000,000 USD
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Description

  • Edvard Munch
  • Evening. Melancholy I (Sch. 82; W. 91)
  • woodcut
  • image: 382 by 457 mm 15 by 18 in
  • sheet approx.: 436 by 600 mm 17 1/8 by 23 5/8 in
Woodcut printed from two blocks in black, grey and ochre, 1896, on thin Japan paper, framed

Provenance

Exhibited

West Palm Beach, Florida, The Norton Gallery of Art, Edvard Munch: Mirror Reflections, 1986
Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Art in Berlin 1815 – 1989, 1990
New York, National Academy of Design, Edvard Munch and Harald Sohlberg: Landscapes of the Mind, 1995-96
Greenwich, Connecticut, Bruce Museum, Love, Isolation and Darkness: The Art of Edvard Munch, 1996-97

Condition

The print is in good condition, with wide (full) margins A small brown stain in the sheet edge at left and a few smaller brown stains in the edges at right and at top. (Extremely faint mat-stain in the margins.)
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