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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2023.592
People
Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
Title
Melancholy II
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Melankoli II
Original Language Title: Melancholie II
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1898
Culture
Norwegian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/379730

Location

Location
Level 3, Room 3500, Special Exhibitions Gallery
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodcut sawn in three pieces printed in black, red, yellow, and blue inks on brown wove paper
Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
block: 33.5 × 41.7 cm (13 3/16 × 16 7/16 in.)
sheet: 36.4 × 46.9 cm (14 5/16 × 18 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: verso, lower right, blue ink: PAS / - / LGS [Philip and Lynn Straus, Lugt 5642]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Christian Gierlöff. [Kaare Berntsen, Oslo], sold; to Philip A. and Lynn G. Straus, New York, November 27, 1978, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
only state
Standard Reference Number
Woll 132; Schiefler 116

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection
Accession Year
2023
Object Number
2023.592
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Elizabeth Prelinger, Edvard Munch: Master Printmaker, exh. cat., W. W. Norton & Company and Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum (New York and London, 1983), pp. 92, 95, pl. 80
  • Elizabeth Prelinger, Guide to the Exhibition "Edvard Munch: Master Printmaker. Prints from The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection", brochure, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1983), checklist
  • Gerd Woll, Edvard Munch: The Complete Graphic Works, Orfeus Publishing (Oslo, 2012), no. 132, p. 155

Exhibition History

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