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Zwei Menschen (Die Einsamen) (S. 133; W. 157)
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EDVARD MUNCH
Zwei Menschen (Die Einsamen) (S. 133; W. 157)
woodcut from three blocks in colors, with monotype coloring and hand-coloring in white, 1899, on wove paper, a fine impression with delicate colors, Woll's second state (of eight) before the additional work on the rocks in the foreground but with the cut from the top edge to the head of the woman clearly visible, signed in pencil, with wide margins, the palest light-staining, minor surface soiling and small areas of pale staining in the margins, pale scattered foxing at the extreme lower margin edge, the margins shaved at upper and right edges and folded back 5/16-in. at the lower and left margin edges, a small abrasion at the fold of the extreme upper left margin edge, slightly skinned areas in the center of the upper and lower margins, soft printing and handling creases in the margins, otherwise in good condition, framed
B. 15 7/16 x 21 11/16 in. (393 x 551 mm.)
S. 20 5/8 x 26 13/16 in. (523 x 681 mm.)
Zwei Menschen (Die Einsamen) (S. 133; W. 157)
woodcut from three blocks in colors, with monotype coloring and hand-coloring in white, 1899, on wove paper, a fine impression with delicate colors, Woll's second state (of eight) before the additional work on the rocks in the foreground but with the cut from the top edge to the head of the woman clearly visible, signed in pencil, with wide margins, the palest light-staining, minor surface soiling and small areas of pale staining in the margins, pale scattered foxing at the extreme lower margin edge, the margins shaved at upper and right edges and folded back 5/16-in. at the lower and left margin edges, a small abrasion at the fold of the extreme upper left margin edge, slightly skinned areas in the center of the upper and lower margins, soft printing and handling creases in the margins, otherwise in good condition, framed
B. 15 7/16 x 21 11/16 in. (393 x 551 mm.)
S. 20 5/8 x 26 13/16 in. (523 x 681 mm.)
Further details
The Lonely Ones is the quintessential symbolist print. Two figures on the shore stare out to sea. By both her placement and the physical division of the block (which in this state is sawn into three parts with the figure of the woman cut to form a separate entity) the woman moves away over the water. The male figure, meanwhile, is firmly rooted to the shore emphasising the separation from his companion.
Gerd Woll, in her catalogue raisonné, records an impression in the second state in the colors described in the present example. In later states there is considerable additional work added in the foreground and a moon is introduced between the two figures.
Gerd Woll, in her catalogue raisonné, records an impression in the second state in the colors described in the present example. In later states there is considerable additional work added in the foreground and a moon is introduced between the two figures.