M20285: Man's Head in Woman's Hair
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M20285
- People
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Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
- Title
- Man's Head in Woman's Hair
- Other Titles
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Series/Book Title: The Mirror
Original Language Title: Mannshode i kvinnehår - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1896
- Culture
- Norwegian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/253114
Location
- Location
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Level 3, Room 3500, Special Exhibitions Gallery
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Woodcut printed in black ink on tan wove paper, cut to the image of two heads and laid down on gray-brown cardboard, colored overall with black and red watercolor and gouache, with gold paint in the woman's hair
- Technique
- Woodcut
- Dimensions
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design: 61.6 × 61 cm (24 1/4 × 24 in.)
printed element: 45 × 35 cm (17 11/16 × 13 3/4 in.)
mounting sheet: 70.7 × 67.3 cm (27 13/16 × 26 1/2 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: along top edge of the mounting sheet, as if lettering for the poster, black watercolor: SPEILET ˑ ANDEN DEL, 1897
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- Woll a.I
- Standard Reference Number
- Woll 89;Schiefler 80a
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
- M20285
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- The area of the heads has been cut out of the sheet on which the woodcut was printed and has been mounted on a backing, the same dark brown paper onto which Munch mounted impressions of his other woodcuts and lithographs for exhibition as a series, "The Mirror." In this case, a rough rectangle has been painted in red ('vermillion' and 'lake') behind the collage element, and a title written above, as a mockup of a poster for the exhibition. The collection also holds an impression of the poster (M21549).
Publication History
- Gerd Woll, Edvard Munch: The Complete Graphic Works, Orfeus Publishing (Oslo, 2012), no. 89, p. 118
Exhibition History
- Touchstone: 200 Years of Artists' Lithographs, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/15/1998 - 11/01/1998; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 07/17/1999 - 09/26/1999; Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, 09/30/1999 - 12/10/2000; William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Museum, Chapel Hill, 02/04/2001 - 05/13/2001
- Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/07/2025 - 07/27/2025
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