Tête-à-Tête (På hybelen)

1894

Edvard Munch

Associated Names
Edvard Munch

Artist, Norwegian, 1863 - 1944

The image depicts two individuals sitting at a table. One person is on the left, facing right, with a high-collared garment and a bow at the neck. The other person is on the right, in profile, exhaling smoke towards the first person. Both face forward, with glasses on the table in front of them. The background shows an interior setting with a window on the left.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint on Japanese paper

  • Credit Line

    The Epstein Family Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 20.4 × 31.4 cm (8 1/16 × 12 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 34.1 × 48 cm (13 7/16 × 18 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2022.172.38

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Woll 2012, no. 9 (p. 43)


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 13 June 1975); The Epstein Family Collection, Washington, DC.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1977

  • Graphic Works by Edvard Munch: Selected from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Lionel C. Epstein, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, 1977.

1978

  • Edvard Munch: 1863/1944, Studio d'Arte A2, 1978.

1983

  • The Prints of Edvard Munch: Mirror of His Life, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus; Portland Art Museum, Portland; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, 1983-1984.

1986

  • Encounter in Space: Double Images in the Graphic Art of Edvard Munch, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover; Wellesley College Museum of Art, Wellesley, 1986-1987.

1997

  • Munch and Women: Image and Myth, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego; Portland Art Museum, Portland; Columbia University of Art, Columbia; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1997.

1999

  • Edvard Munch: Prints from the Epstein Family Collection, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Hiroshima Museum of Art, Hiroshima; Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Sogo Museum of Art, Chiba, 1999.

Markings

"E L S" [Lionel and Sally Epstein] verso, red stamped ink.

Watermarks

None.


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