Lot 14
  • 14

Edvard Munch

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Edvard Munch
  • Jealousy I (W. 68; S. 57)
  • Signed lower right
  • Lithograph
  • sheet: 338 by 464 mm 13 1/4 by 18 1/4 in
Lithograph, 1896, Woll's b, on wove paper, framed

Provenance

Possibly from the estate of the artist and a duplicate from the Munch Museum (however no stamps on the verso); Alan and Dorothy Press; Sold Sotheby Parke Bernet, February 13, 1970, lot 280; David Tunick, Inc., New York

EXHIBITED
Florida, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art

Exhibited

Florida, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art

Condition

With small margins. Damages to the paper throughout. A uneven residue visible under raking light in areas of the sheet. The verso with skinned spots. Backed with wove.
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Catalogue Note

“Jealousy, sacred feeling of cleanliness of the soul which abhors to mingle with another through the intermediary of woman. Jealousy, legitimate selfishness, born from the instinct to preserve self..." EDVARD MUNCH

In the 1890s, Munch started printing lithographs with the master printer, Auguste Clot, who was also responsible for encouraging several of the late 19th century French artists to experiment with lithography. It has been suggested that the jealous man at left was based on Przybyszewski, the Polish writer, yet could also be a depiction of the artist himself.