Munch, Edvard
(1863-1944)
Head of a Woman
Watercolour on heavy white, laid paper
Sheet: 254x178 mm
Signed in pencil upper left: Edv Munch
Registered in the coming oeuvre-catalogue on Munch's Drawings which is to be published by the Munch Museum in the near future, with the number PE.T.00579. See: https://munch.emuseum.com/search/PE.T.00579.
Auctioned Monday December 11 2017 at 18:00
Estimate
NOK 300,000–400,000
USD 36,400–48,600
EUR 30,900–41,200
Hammer price
NOK 300,000
The Munch Museum did not know of this water-colour on beforehand. Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings Magne Bruteig at The Munch Museum has informed us that this Head of a Woman, most likely, is, either the Model Frøydis Mjølstad who modelled for Edvard Munch in the years 1916 to 1924, or Annie Fjeldbu, who modelled for him in the years 1918 to 1923.