Edvard Munch
The Kiss

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Artist Edvard Munch Norwegian, 1863–1944

CultureNorwegian

Titles

The Kiss

Date1921

PlaceNorway

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsCanvas or panel: 34 3/4 x 39 11/16 in. (88.3 x 100.8 cm)
Frame (outer): 42 1/4 × 47 3/8 × 2 in. (107.3 × 120.3 × 5.1 cm)

Credit LineSarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston

Object numberBF.1968.1

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Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

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PAINTING

ProvenanceRolf E. Stenersen; Ludvig G. Braaten, Oslo, 1948–after 1951; [Hammerlunds Kunsthandel]; [Galerie Roman Norbert Ketterer, Campione d'Italia, Lugano, Switzerland]; purchased by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, 1968.
Exhibition History"Edvard Munch," Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, April 9, 1976–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.

"Edvard Munch: Mirror Reflections," Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, February 22–April 6, 1986.

"Edvard Munch: Master Prints from the Epstein Family Collection," Honolulu Academy of Arts, September 12–October 28, 1990.

"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: 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.

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

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 1921"

Catalogue raisonnéWoll 2008, no. 1405

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