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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 23, 2022 | Est-Ouest Auctions | Tokyo | Contemporary & Modern Art | 143 | $****** - ****** | THE SIN |
Prints & Multiples
79.7 x 49.4 cm (31.38 x 19.45 in)
lithograph
signed on the margin
"Edvard Munch : the complete graphic works", Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd., 2001, p.184-185, No.198 I
Entitled "The Sin," this eerie work was produced in 1902. "Sin" has five variations, each with a different body orientation and hair style. The work is deeply influenced by Franz von Stuck's masterpiece of 1893, “The Sin”. In Stuck's "Sin", the naked body of Eve in the Old Testament is depicted with a serpent wrapped around it, and the composition is like this work. In Munch's "Sin" stands a long-haired woman with her eyes wide open. Her gaze seems to stare into the void. Munch reinterprets Stuck's "Sin" and successfully reveals the innermost mysteries of the human heart. Initially, it was said that the model for the work was based on a woman named Thula Larsen, whom Munch was dating at the time, but later it is said that it was based on a photograph taken by Munch of a professional model. This work is one of the representative works among Munch's prints, which he produced more than 800 works in his lifetime. The image of this work was also used as the main visual for the large-scale exhibition of Munch's prints held at the County Museum of Art in Los Angeles in 1969.
