Intaglio print printed in black on heavy beige wove
Sheet: 344x446 mm Image: 205x285 mm
Secondary signature in pencil lower right: E Munch
Annotated in pencil lower right: Christiania Bohème
1895
Woll 15 b.
Annotated in pencil lower left: "Sch. 10/ II c". In Schiefler under 10 II c it says: "Die gewöhnlichen Exemplare der von Meier-Graefe herausgegebenen Mappe." (The ordinary Impressions of the Portfolio edited by Meier-Graefe). 55 impressions were printed on heavy beige wove for the ordinary edition of the portfolio, these were not signed.
Auctioned Monday December 11 2017 at 18:00
Estimate
NOK 150,000–200,000
USD 18,200–24,300
EUR 15,400–20,600
LITERATURE: Pola Gauguin: Grafikeren Edvard Munch Tresnitt og raderinger (The graphic artist Edvard Munch Woodcuts and intaglio prints), Trondheim 1946.
Everything was debated by the Kristiania-Bohemians: Art, literature, politics and social problems, like women's liberation, prostitution and the labour movement. P. 72.