LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Woodcut printed in brown, blue, blueish-grey and pale ochre

Size Notes:

image: 375 by 468mm 14¾ by 18â??in

Edition:

Melancholy is one of Munch's most remarkable colour prints. The dejected figure represents Munch's lifelong friend Jappe Nilssen, a Danish art critic whose doomed love affair with the married Oda Lasson Krohg is the cause of his distress. This motif appeared for the first time in a pastel of 1891 and was repeated in numerous paintings, as well as in the first printed rendition of the subject executed in 1896, Melancholy I. Munch revisited the subject in 1902 after a crate containing the 1896 woodblock went missing and added the figures of Oda and her husband approaching the rowing boat on the far shore. Unlike Melancholy I, Melancholy III bears a closer resemblance to the painted versions and is a more truthful depiction of the �sgårdstrand landscape in terms of the orientation of the shoreline.

Markings:

Melancholy is one of Munch's most remarkable colour prints. The dejected figure represents Munch's lifelong friend Jappe Nilssen, a Danish art critic whose doomed love affair with the married Oda Lasson Krohg is the cause of his distress. This motif appeared for the first time in a pastel of 1891 and was repeated in numerous paintings, as well as in the first printed rendition of the subject executed in 1896, Melancholy I. Munch revisited the subject in 1902 after a crate containing the 1896 woodblock went missing and added the figures of Oda and her husband approaching the rowing boat on the far shore. Unlike Melancholy I, Melancholy III bears a closer resemblance to the painted versions and is a more truthful depiction of the �sgårdstrand landscape in terms of the orientation of the shoreline.

Condition:

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