Lithograph printed in black on medium heavy bluish grey wove
Sheet: 635x488 mm Image: 610x460 mm
Signed in pencil lower right: E Munch
Signed in the stone lower left: E Munch
Annotated somewhat illegibly lower left: “S 064 ter W.».
Faint stamp lower right: HH (Holst Halvorsen).
On verso 3 stamps: 2 from Kunsthaus Bremen, 1 from Holst Halvorsen.
Estimate
NOK 400,000–600,000
LITERATURE: Gerd Woll: Edvard Munch Prints from 1896, exhibition catalogue Munch Museum, Oslo 1996.
Gerd Woll: Edvard Munch – The complete graphic Works, Oslo 2012, cat.no 66 I.
August Strindberg (1849-1912) was a Swedish poet and writer, and a close friend of Munch during his early years in Berlin and in Paris 1896. Munch painted a portrait of him in 1892 (Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Woll 301). Woll 2012, p. 94.
-…Munch made a surprisingly large number of graphic portraits of his Scandinavian author-friends in the course of 1896: August Strindberg, Sigbjørn Obstfelder; Hans Jæger, Gunnar Heiberg, Knut Hamsun and Helge Rode. Woll 1996, p. 20.
