Edvard Munch
Kneeling Female Nude

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Artist Edvard Munch Norwegian, 1863–1944

CultureNorwegian

Titles

Kneeling Female Nude

Date1919

PlaceNorway

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsCanvas or panel: 39 1/2 × 47 1/2 in. (100.3 × 120.7 cm)
Frame (outer): 50 x 58 x 3 1/4 in. (127 x 147.3 x 8.3 cm)

Credit LineSarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston

Object numberBF.1969.1

Not on view

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Department

Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

Object Type

PAINTING

ProvenanceAnton Sunde, before 1922; Per Sunde, 1967; [Siegfried Adler, Lugano, Switzerland]; purchased by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, 1969.

Exhibition HistoryBlomqvist, Oslo, 1919.

"Edvard Munch," Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo, 1927.

"Edvard Munch," Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, March 30–June 9, 1968.

"Edvard Munch," Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, April 9–May 23, 1976; New Orleans Museum of Art, June 11–July 18, 1976; Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, July 28–September 12, 1976.

"Modern Masters from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston, Texas," Memorial Student Center Gallery, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, January 9–February 5, 1983.

"Modern Masters," The Gallery of Southern Methodist University, Dallas, January 12–February 23, 1992.

"European Modern Masterworks from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation in Houston," El Paso Museum of Art, August 21, 1995–February 28, 1996.

"Love, Isolation, and Darkness," Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, September 28, 1996–January 5, 1997.

"Modernism in a Century of Change II: Expressionism," Museum Of Fine Arts, Houston, 1998.

"Edvard Munch," Museo d'Arte Moderna, Lugano, Switzerland, September 19, 1998–December 13, 1998.

"Edvard Munch in Chemnitz: 1929 und 1999," Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany, November 14, 1999–February 20, 2000.

"Edvard Munch: Psyche, Symbol and Expression," McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, January 1–May 31, 2001.

"Edvard Munch: His Work as an Essential Contribution to Modernity," Fondation Beyeler, Basel, March 18–July 22, 2007; Kunsthalle Würth, Bonn, August 3–December 16, 2007.

"Edvard Munch: A Private View," Pinacothèque de Paris, February 19–August 8, 2010; Kunsthal, Rotterdam, Netherlands, September 18, 2010–February 21, 2011.

"Van Gogh to Munch: European Masterworks," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, June 4, 2011–June 4, 2013.

"Edvard Munch," Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, October 6, 2015–January 17, 2016.

McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, November 21, 2018–November 17, 2019.

"Munch and Beyond," Albertina Museum, Vienna, February 18–June 19, 2022.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Signed and dated lower right: "Edv. Munch 1919"

Catalogue raisonnéWoll 2008, no. 1321

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