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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M15341
People
Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
Title
Head by Head
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Man and Woman Kissing
Original Language Title: Hode ved hode
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1905
Culture
Norwegian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/253541

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodcut printed in orange, green, and grayish black ink on off-white Japanese paper
Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
design: 39.8 × 54 cm (15 11/16 × 21 1/4 in.)
sheet: 49.8 × 59.4 cm (19 5/8 × 23 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower margin below right corner of block, graphite: Edvard Munch
  • collector's mark: verso, red stamp, stamped twice: [Fogg Museum accession stamp (Lugt 936)]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., St. Louis, Missouri, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, December 28, 1973.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Woll 268d, Schiefler 230a

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. in memory of Frederick B. Deknatel
Accession Year
1973
Object Number
M15341
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Gerd Woll, Edvard Munch: The Complete Graphic Works, Orfeus Publishing (Oslo, 2012), no. 268, p. 233

Exhibition History

  • From Impressionism to the Bauhaus: German Master Prints from the Harvard Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 05/19/1981 - 06/29/1981

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