Lithograph printed in black on medium thin bluish grey paper
Sheet: 632x637 mm Image: 490x500 mm
Signed in pencil lower right: Edv Munch
Annotated in pencil lower left: “No 1. 13/12 1916 Nielsen”. Printed by Nielsen.
1916
Woll 598 D.
Estimate
NOK 100,000–150,000USD 12,000–17,500EUR 11,000–16,500
LITERATURE: Gerd Woll: Edvard Munch – The complete graphic Works, Oslo 2012.
Munch has made lithographs of the tiger- and lion tamer Sawade both with a tiger and a lion. See Woll cat.nos. 597, 598. In both cases the artist also had impressions made from the same stones where either the animal or the tamer were masked out, and in this case it was made a borderline around only the lion’s head. Sawade probably performed, as Woll says, at the Hagenbeck circus during their stay in Oslo. Woll under cat.no. 597, p. 380.
