Munch, Edvard
(1863-1944)
Prostitute
Intaglio print printed in brownish black on heavy cream wove
Sheet: 407x297 mm Image: 235x170 mm
Signed in pencil lower right: E Munch
Printer’s signature in pencil lower left: O Felsing Berlin gdr.
1904
Woll 247.
Auctioned Monday December 12 2016 at 14:00
Estimate
NOK 80,000
USD 9,500
EUR 8,900
Unsold
LITERATURE: Gerd Woll: Edvard Munch – Complete Paintings, London 2009.
In three paintings from 1903-04 Edvard Munch painted motifs from brothels, Woll 572, 573 and 575. Under 572 is written among other things:
… , Schiefler’s diaries inform us that Munch painted brothel scenes in Lübeck in 1903 … . Woll, p. 599.