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Property from a Private Collection, Norway

Edvard Munch

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