Live Auction 1114Old Master, Modern & Contemporary Prints
Edvard Munch
Lot 69 PROPERTY FROM THE HEIRS OF PROF. DR. CURT GLASER

Edvard Munch

Death and the Woman (Sch., W. 3)

Closed20 March 2013

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GBP 59,475

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Edvard Munch
Death and the Woman (Sch., W. 3)
drypoint, 1894, on Chine collé on heavy wove paper, a very good, early impression of this rare print, with the border, printed with a light, even plate tone and burr, signed and dated in pencil, inscribed II Z., with wide margins, probably the full sheet, very pale light and mount staining, generally in very good condition
P. 307 x 218 mm., S. 617 x 450 mm.

Dr. Curt Glaser (1879-1943), Berlin; the forced sale of his collection, Max Perl, Berlin, 18 and 19 May 1933, lot 1086 (estimate 80 M).
Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (cf. L. 1606), with their acquisition stamp dated 1933 (this stamp not in Lugt), inventory number 28 in pencil; purchased at the above sale; with their de-accession stamp dated 2012 in pencil (not in Lugt).
Restituted to the heirs of Dr. Curt Glaser in 2012.

Specialist note

Munch's inscription designates this impression as a second state. Recent research of the available impressions has however revealed that the border around the image, the differentiator between the first and second states, is in fact a matter of selective inking rather than additional work to the plate. Gerd Woll therefore divides the known impressions into two variants, A & B, designating the absence or presence of the border. This print is cited by Woll as an early variant B impression (with the border).

Woll records a total of forty impressions in public collections.