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A small crowd of figures all stare facing the viewer with a lake and hills in the background.

Heavy black lines on cream colored paper depict a group of figures advancing into the foreground from middle right. Except for the white bonnets of two women in the front, the figures are each dressed in all black coats, and dresses and top hats. They all stare wide-eyed, straight ahead at the viewer. In the distance a lake with small boats can be seen. Bold rhythmic lines trace the shoreline and the surrounding hills, and these lines are echoed in the sky above by long flowing lines in red denoting clouds.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2012.267
People
Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
Title
Angst
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Anxiety
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1896
Culture
Norwegian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/343037

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lithograph printed in black and red ink on off-white wove paper
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
image: 42 × 38.5 cm (16 9/16 × 15 3/16 in.)
sheet: 57.3 × 43.3 cm (22 9/16 × 17 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with graphihte numbering below: KOENIGLICHES KUPFERSTICHKABINETT [within a double-line oval border surrounding an armorial device and the stamped numbers] 465 / 1901 [seal of Royal Kupferstichkabinett, now the Kupferstichkabinett, Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (Lugt 1612)] 17.
  • inscription: lower margin, below right corner of image: 55 Edvard Munch
  • inscription: verso, graphite: Les Peintres-Graveurs / 1896 - Lieferung I
  • collector's mark: verso, blue stamp: P A S / - / L G S [Philip A. and Lynn G. Straus, Lugt 5642]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Kaare Berntsen Gallery, Oslo], sold; to Philip and Lynn Straus (1972-2012); Lynn Straus, gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2012.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/ii3
Standard Reference Number
Woll 63, Schiefler 61

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lynn G. Straus in memory of Philip A. Straus
Accession Year
2012
Object Number
2012.267
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Elizabeth Prelinger, Edvard Munch: Master Printmaker, exh. cat., W. W. Norton & Company and Busch-Reisinger Museum (New York and London, 1983), pl. 40
  • Elizabeth Prelinger, Guide to the Exhibition "Edvard Munch: Master Printmaker. Prints from The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection", brochure, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1983), checklist

Exhibition History

  • Edvard Munch: Master Printmaker, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 10/06/1983 - 11/27/1983; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, 01/29/1984 - 03/25/1984

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