
Property from a Private Collection, Norway
Hus i Kragerø (Houses in Kragerø)
Auction Closed
March 4, 09:10 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500,000 - 2,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Edvard Munch
1863 - 1944
Hus i Kragerø (Houses in Kragerø)
signed E Munch and dated 1912 (lower left)
oil on canvas
110.2 by 120.2 cm. 43⅜ by 47¼ in.
Executed in 1912.
Ragnar Moltzau, Oslo
Roman Norbert Ketterer, Lugano (acquired in 1967)
Sotheby’s, London, 4 December 1984, lot 38
Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York (acquired from the above sale)
Ulving Kunsthandel AS, Tønsberg (acquired by 1994)
Mitsui Collection, Japan (acquired from the above in 1994)
Acquired in the late 1990s by the present owner
Kristiania, Blomqvist Kunsthandel, Edvard Munch, 1916
Exh. Cat., Atlanta, The High Museum of Art, After the Scream: The Late Paintings of Edvard Munch, 2002, p. 49, illustrated in a photograph
Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul, 2006, fig. 7, p. 73, illustrated in a photograph
Gerd Woll, Edvard Munch, Complete Paintings, Catalogue Raisonné, vol III, London, 2009, no. 1005, p. 988, illustrated in colour
Hans-Martin Frydenberg Flaatten, Sunrise in Kragerø. The Story of Edvard Munch's Life at Skrubben 1909–1915, Kragerø, 2013, fig. 30, p. 58, illustrated in colour
Ulf Hamran, "Edvard Munchs Kragerø-bilder," in Historieglimt 2009. Årsskrift for Kragerø og Skåtøy Historielag, Kragerø, 2009, p. 126