Munch, Edvard
(1863-1944)
Holger Drachmann
Lithograph printed in black on thin Japan paper
Sheet: 525x397 mm Image: 507x397 mm
Signed in pencil lower right: Edv Munch
1902
Woll 197.
Auctioned Wednesday November 25 2020 at 18:00
Estimate
NOK 50,000–70,000
USD 5,500–7,600
EUR 4,600–6,500
Hammer price
NOK 120,000
LITERATURE: Gerd Woll: Edvard Munch – Complete Paintings, London 2009.
Gerd Woll: Edvard Munch – The complete graphic Works, Oslo 2012.
Holger Drachmann (1846-1908) was a Danish poet and painter and a familiar figure in Scandinavian bohemian circles in Berlin in the 1890s. He was a close friend of Frits Thaulow and Christian Krohg. Munch also painted his portrait, probably in 1898 (MM M 985, Woll 418). P. 193.