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Two figures by a shoreline at night

Beneath a starlit sky a man and a woman near a curving shoreline are shown in profile facing each other. Shown at center in the extreme foreground, we see them only from their shoulders up, as the shore, the lake, a low wall, trees and distant hills stretch out beyond them. Thin white lines scratched into the dark background trace the outline of the woman’s hair which blows toward the man, almost wrapping around his head. Similar thin scratchy lines extend in front of the two figures, like long shadows that land on the wall in the distance.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
M20224
People
Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
Title
Attraction I
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Mirror
Original Language Title: Tiltrekning I
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1896
Culture
Norwegian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/253104

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lithograph printed in black ink on off-white China paper, hand-colored in blue watercolor and mounted by the artist on coarse brown paper
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 46.8 × 34.4 cm (18 7/16 × 13 9/16 in.)
mounting sheet: 68.5 × 67.7 cm (26 15/16 × 26 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower margin of mounting paper below the right corner of the printing sheet, graphite: Edv Munch 1897
  • collector's mark: lower margin of mounting paper to left and below printing sheet, red stamp, blurred: H S [monogram; Heinrich Stinnes (Lugt 1376a)]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Kaare Bertsen A/S, Oslo, 1983].

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
only state
Standard Reference Number
Woll 75a, Schiefler 65

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Lynn and Philip A. Straus, Class of 1937
Object Number
M20224
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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
  • Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 180, ill.

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
  • 32Q: 2700 Impressionism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/11/2016 - 03/16/2017

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