Auction Monday December 12 2016 at 14:00
Munch, Edvard(1863-1944)
The Woman and the Bear

Lithograph printed in black on heavy cream paper
Sheet: 285-288x277-280 mm Image: 198x215 mm
Unsigned

Annotated lower right: Av serien Alfa og Omega. Av Edvard Munch. Fra Inger Munch 1945. (From the Series Alpha and Omega. By Edvard Munch. From Inger Munch 1945.).
Annotated lower left: Til Ole Tronhuus. (To Ole Tronhuus.).

1908-09
Woll 362.

Estimate
NOK 80,000USD 9,500EUR 8,900

Auctioned Monday December 12 2016 at 14:00

Hammer price NOK 80,000

LITERATURE: Gerd Woll: Edvard Munch – The complete graphic Works, Oslo 2012.

Some impressions printed on the same sheet as cat. nos. 320 (Walking Tiger), 325 (Reclining Lioness)and 334 (Eagle’s Head), which were on the same stone.

Edition of 15 impressions on Japan paper and ca. 60 on heavy white wove, according to exh. cat. Blomqvist 1917.

A similar subject appears in drawings of ca. 1895 (MM T 1383; private collection). Executed together with the prints for “Alpha and Omega” but not included in the portfolio (cf. cat. no. 345 (The Bear)). P. 268.