Edvard Munch
1863 - 1944
Kristiania Boheme I. 1895.
Etching and drypoint.
Signed and titled. Titled by another hand and numbered several times. On firm wove paper. 20.7 x 28.7 cm (8.1 x 11.2 in). Sheet: 43,9 x 60 cm (17,2 x 23,6 in).


• In this early print, Edvard Munch is shown in profile on the far left together with his bohemian circle in Kristiania (now Oslo).
• A later painting with the same subject is now in the Munch Museum in Oslo.
• Further prints can be found in important museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Kunsthaus Zurich, and the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main.

PROVENANCE: Estate of Edvard Munch, Oslo (1944; verso with estate stamp).
Collection of the Munch Museum, Oslo (verso with two collection stamps).
Private collection, Northern Germany (from family estate).

LITERATURE: Gustav Schiefler, Edvard Munch. Das graphische Werk 1906-1920, Berlin 1928, CR no. of10 II c (n II d).
Gerd Woll, Edvard Munch. Werkverzeichnis der Graphik, München 2001, CT no. 15 c/III (of c/III).