EDVARD MUNCH
EDVARD MUNCH

Vampire II (Sch. 34; W. 41)

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EDVARD MUNCH
Vampire II (Sch. 34; W. 41)
lithograph, 1895-1902, on thin Asian paper, a very good impression, Woll's state I (of X), a monochrome version without the color woodblocks, signed in pencil within the subject on the woman's elbow, the full sheet, a tiny repaired hole with an associated pale foxmark at the man's temple, several additional pale foxmarks, the lower left re-attached, a small repaired loss at the left sheet edge, other minor defects mainly at the sheet corners (from former hinging), otherwise in good condition, framed
S. 15¼ x 21 7/8 in. (387 x 555 mm.)
來源
Galerie Graupe, Berlin, September 1925, lot 749 (195 RM.).
Museen der Stadt Lübeck; their stamp twice on the reverse (not in L.), acquired in the above sale.
Confiscated as "degenerate art" by the German National Socialist regime (Entartete Kunst No. 11502).
Harald H. Halvorsen, Oslo (acquired together with all other confiscated works by Munch; for GBP 8.00); sold at auction Edv. Munchs malerier og grafiske arbeider fra tyske museer on 23 January 1939, lot 12.

拍品專文

We wish to thank Dr. Brigitte Heise, curator at the Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Hansestadt Lübeck, and Andreas Hüneke, Forschungsstelle 'Entartete Kunst', Freie Universität Berlin/Universität Hamburg, for kindly providing the information on the provenance of this print.