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EDVARD MUNCH (1863-1944)
Madonna
lithograph printed from three stones in black, red and blue, on stiff greenish-grey card, 1895-1902, signed in pencil, a fine, rich yet transparent impression of Woll’s variant A.2.II., before the reworking of the red color stone, printed by Walter Lassally, Berlin, 1902, with margins, presumably the full sheet, in very good condition, framed
Image: 23 5/8 x 17 3/8 in. (600 x 440 mm.)
Sheet: 26 x 19 ¼ in. (660 x 490 mm.)
Madonna
lithograph printed from three stones in black, red and blue, on stiff greenish-grey card, 1895-1902, signed in pencil, a fine, rich yet transparent impression of Woll’s variant A.2.II., before the reworking of the red color stone, printed by Walter Lassally, Berlin, 1902, with margins, presumably the full sheet, in very good condition, framed
Image: 23 5/8 x 17 3/8 in. (600 x 440 mm.)
Sheet: 26 x 19 ¼ in. (660 x 490 mm.)
Provenance
Gustav Schiefler (1857-1935), Hamburg; acquired directly from the artist on 11 February 1903 (according to Schiefler’s diary entry of that day).
Otto Georg Schiefler (d. 2019), Hamburg; by descent in the family from the above.
Private Collection, Hamburg; acquired privately from the above around 1968-70.
Otto Georg Schiefler (d. 2019), Hamburg; by descent in the family from the above.
Private Collection, Hamburg; acquired privately from the above around 1968-70.
Literature
Schiefler 33; Woll 39
Arne Eggum (ed.), Edvard Munch / Gustav Schiefler – Briefwechsel (Vol. 1, 1901 – 1914), Hamburg, 1987, p. 50 – 52, no. 20, 23-25 & p. 390, no. 530.
Arne Eggum (ed.), Edvard Munch / Gustav Schiefler – Briefwechsel (Vol. 1, 1901 – 1914), Hamburg, 1987, p. 50 – 52, no. 20, 23-25 & p. 390, no. 530.
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