In the Male Brain (Imannens hjerne)

1897

Edvard Munch

Associated Names
Edvard Munch

Artist, Norwegian, 1863 - 1944

Imprimerie Lemercier

Printer, Paris

Edvard Munch

Printer, Norwegian, 1863 - 1944

M. W. Lassally Graphische Kunst-Anstalt

Printer, Berlin

This print displays elongated, flowing lines and shapes moving in irregular, wavy patterns. Below the lines, a face emerges, featuring discernible eyes, a nose, and lips. The lines appear to be swirling hair. Above the face, in the center of those lines, appears to be the nude body of a woman stretching horizontally across the upper portion of the image, with limbs and torso depicted through the undulating lines. This body doesn’t have visible facial features. The background of the print is red, with off-white lines.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut, printed in red

  • Credit Line

    The Epstein Family Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 37.2 × 56.9 cm (14 5/8 × 22 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 48.3 × 63.8 cm (19 × 25 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2021.101.6

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Woll 2012, no. 110 (p. 136)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Munch Museum; acquired in trade by Munch Estate; to Robert M. Light & Co., Inc., New York, 22 October 1969; to the Epstein Family Collection, Washington; gift to NGA, 2021

Associated Names

Bibliography

2001

  • Woll, Gerd. Edvard Munch: The Complete Graphic Works. New York, 2001: no. 110.

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