78
Edvard Munch
Kristiania Boheme I, 1895.
Etching
Prix de départ: € 8,000 / $ 10,620
78
Edvard Munch
Kristiania Boheme I, 1895.
Etching
Prix de départ: € 8,000 / $ 10,620

Edvard Munch
1863 - 1944
Kristiania Boheme I. 1895.
Etching and drypoint.
Signed and titled. Titled by another hand and numbered several times. On firm wove paper. 20.7 x 28.7 cm (8.1 x 11.2 in). Sheet: 43,9 x 60 cm (17,2 x 23,6 in).


• In this early print, Edvard Munch is shown in profile on the far left together with his bohemian circle in Kristiania (now Oslo).
• A later painting with the same subject is now in the Munch Museum in Oslo.
• Further prints can be found in important museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Kunsthaus Zurich, and the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main
.

PROVENANCE: Estate of Edvard Munch, Oslo (1944; verso with estate stamp).
Collection of the Munch Museum, Oslo (verso with two collection stamps).
Private collection, Northern Germany (from family estate).

LITERATURE: Gustav Schiefler, Edvard Munch. Das graphische Werk 1906-1920, Berlin 1928, CR no. of10 II c (n II d).
Gerd Woll, Edvard Munch. Werkverzeichnis der Graphik, München 2001, CT no. 15 c/III (of c/III).