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Details
- Date
- 1895
- Media category
- Materials used
- drypoint
- Edition
- vi of 6 states, Schiefler 20
- Dimensions
- 15.7 x 21.7 cm platemark; 26.7 x 35.1 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. sheet, pencil "Edvard Munch...". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1957
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 9415
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Edvard Munch
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About
Munch’s artistically formative years took place in Paris in the late 1880s and Berlin in the 1890s. In Germany he began to make a name for himself and became involved with the Jugendstil publication Pan, which actively promoted the graphic arts. In 1895 the magazine’s co-founder, Julius Meier-Graefe, published a portfolio containing eight drypoints and etchings by Munch. The set included Two human beings (The lonely ones) (opposite, below). The mood of existential loneliness is rendered all the more poignant by the presence of a man and woman staring together out to sea at the rocky beach at Åsgårdstrand, yet physically and psychically separated from each other.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 5 exhibitions
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1957, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Feb 1958–16 Mar 1958
The edge of the world, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 05 Jul 1985–25 Aug 1985
Prints in Germany 1880-1940, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 28 Oct 1989–07 Jan 1990
Fin de Siècle: posters prints drawings from the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Jan 1994–13 Mar 1994
European prints and drawings 1500-1900, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Aug 2014–02 Nov 2014
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Nicholas Draffin, Prints in Germany 1880-1940, Sydney, 1989, p 6.
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Renée Free, Fin de Siècle, Sydney, Jan 1994.
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Peter Raissis, Prints & drawings Europe 1500-1900, Sydney, 2014, col illus p 181.
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