Death and the Woman (Sch., W. 3)

Details

Edvard Munch
Death and the Woman (Sch., W. 3)
drypoint, 1894, on Chine collé on heavy wove paper, a very good, early impression of this rare print, with the border, printed with a light, even plate tone and burr, signed and dated in pencil, inscribed II Z., with wide margins, probably the full sheet, very pale light and mount staining, generally in very good condition
P. 307 x 218 mm., S. 617 x 450 mm.

Provenance

Dr. Curt Glaser (1879-1943), Berlin; the forced sale of his collection, Max Perl, Berlin, 18 and 19 May 1933, lot 1086 (estimate 80 M).
Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (cf. L. 1606), with their acquisition stamp dated 1933 (this stamp not in Lugt), inventory number 28 in pencil; purchased at the above sale; with their de-accession stamp dated 2012 in pencil (not in Lugt).
Restituted to the heirs of Dr. Curt Glaser in 2012.

Literature

Gerd Woll, Edvard Munch - The Complete Graphic Works, Philip Wilson Publishers, London, in association with The Munch-Museet, Oslo, 2001, no. 3B (this impression cited).

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Further Details

For more information about the provenance of this lot see the note for lot 70.

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Lot Essay

Munch's inscription designates this impression as a second state. Recent research of the available impressions has however revealed that the border around the image, the differentiator between the first and second states, is in fact a matter of selective inking rather than additional work to the plate. Gerd Woll therefore divides the known impressions into two variants, A & B, designating the absence or presence of the border. This print is cited by Woll as an early variant B impression (with the border).

Woll records a total of forty impressions in public collections.

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