The Kiss

1898

Edvard Munch

Associated Names
Edvard Munch

Artist, Norwegian, 1863 - 1944

This print appears to show two people with their arms around each other. Their faces have no features and appear to blend together, and their dark hair and dark clothes are indistinguishable. The background has a wood grain pattern in vertical gray lines against the beige paper.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut printed from two blocks in black and gray on heavy brown paper [1902 printing]

  • Credit Line

    The Epstein Family Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 47 x 45.1 cm (18 1/2 x 17 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 60.7 x 59.3 cm (23 7/8 x 23 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1990.26.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Woll 2001, no. 204, State iii/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Harald Holst Halvorsen (HHH, Lugt undescribed)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

-1

  • Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Walker Art Building, Brunswick, ME (date unknown).

1969

  • The Phillips Collection (illustrated).

1976

  • Edvard Munch, The Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, The University of Houston, Texas, April 9-May 23, 1976, cat. 50.

1990

  • Edvard Munch: Master Prints from the Epstein Family Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington; and tour, 1990-1992, p. 112.

2013

  • Edvard Munch: A 150th Anniversary Tribute, NGA, 2013.

2015

  • Edvard Munch: Archetypes, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 2015.

Bibliography

1907

  • Schiefler, Gustav. Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks Edvard Munchs bis 1906. vol. 1. Berlin, 1907 (reprinted 1974); and Schiefler, Gustav. Edvard Munch. Das graphische Werk 1906-1926. vol. 2. Berlin, 1927. (reprinted 1974).

1990

  • Epstein, Sarah G. Edvard Munch: Master Prints from the Epstein Family Collection. Washington D.C., 1990: page 112.

2001

  • Woll, Gerd. Edvard Munch: The Complete Graphic Works. New York, 2001.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Edv. Munch; by later hands, lower right verso in graphite: 4173 WH 21 B-9030

Wikidata ID

Q74884669

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