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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 13, 2023 | Christie's | London | Masterpieces from the Collection of Sam Josefowitz: A Lifetime of Discovery and Scholarship | 15 | $****** - ****** | Vampyr II |
Prints & Multiples
44.8 x 62.7 cm (17.64 x 24.69 in)
lithograph and woodcut in colours
signed "E Munch" in pencil (lower right margin)
Norwegian Private Collection, Oslo.
Galleri K, Oslo; acquired from the above in 1985.
Wiktor Forss (B. 1939), London and Stockholm; acquired from the above in 1986.
Galleri K, Oslo; acquired from the above in 1990.
Sam Josefowitz; acquired from the above on 25 September 1990; thence by descent to the present owners.
G. Schiefler, Edvard Munch- Das graphische Werk 1906-1926 , Berlin, 1974, no. 34, pp. 51 & 52 (another impression illustrated p. 158).
G. Woll, Edvard Munch- Complete Graphic Works , Oslo, 2012, no. 41, pp. 70-73 (another impression of this variant illustrated p. 71).
ADDITIONAL SELECTED LITERATURE:
M.-H. Wood, ed., Edvard Munch, The Frieze of Life, exh. cat., London, 1993, no. 22, p. 70 (another impression illustrated).
E. Prelinger & M. Parke-Taylor, The Symbolist Prints of Edvard Munch - T he Vivian and David Campbell Collection , exh. cat., Toronto, 1997, no. 48, pp. 105-111 (another impression of this variant illustrated p. 110).
G. Woll, Edvard Munch - A Genius of Printmaking, exh. cat., Zurich , 2013, no. 137, p. 185, (another impression of this variant illustrated).
D. Buchart & K.A. Schröder, eds., Edvard Munch, Love, Death, Loneliness, exh. cat., Vienna, 2016, no. 77, p. 145 (another impression of this variant illustrated).
J. Lloyd & R. Heller, Munch and Expressionism , exh. cat, New York, 2016, pp. 101 & 102 (another impression illustrated).
G. Bartrum, ed., Edvard Munch: love and angst, exh. cat., London, 2019, no. 37, p. 89 (another impression of this variant illustrated).
EDVARD MUNCH (1863-1944)
Vampyr II
lithograph and woodcut in colours
1895-1902
on thin laid Japan paper
signed "E Munch" in pencil (lower right margin)
a superb impression of Woll"s sixth variant (of ten), with strong contrasts and rich colours
the lithograph keystone printed in black, the second stone in red, and the sawn woodblock in blue, green and ochre
printed by M. W. Lassally, Berlin, between 1902 and 1914
Image 380 x 555 mm.
Sheet 448 x 627 mm.
