Edvard Munch
Madonna or Liebendes Weib (Loving Woman)

Madonna or Liebendes Weib (Loving Woman)

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Madonna or Liebendes Weib (Loving Woman)
ArtistNorwegian, 1863–1944
CultureNorwegian
Titles
  • Madonna or Liebendes Weib (Loving Woman)
Date1895–1902
PlaceNorway
MediumLithograph on gray-green wove paper
DimensionsImage: 23 1/2 × 17 3/8 in. (59.7 × 44.1 cm)
Sheet: 25 3/4 × 19 1/8 in. (65.4 × 48.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Fayez Sarofim and Meredith J. Long in honor of Barry Walker at "One Great Night in November, 2003"
Object number2003.708
Not on view

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Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist; bequethed to the City of Oslo; transferred to Munch Museet, Olso; [Frederick Mulder, Ltd., London, by 2003]; purchased by MFAH, 2003.
Exhibition History"Masterworks of Lithography," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 12–May 8, 2005.

"Circa 1900: Decorative Arts at the Turn of the Century," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 26–July 31, 2011.

"The Marzio Years: Transforming the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1982–2010," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 25, 2020–January 10, 2021.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in pencil, lower right below image: "Edv Munch"
Marked in pencil on verso: "65 ll (?)"
Stamped on verso center:
"Fra Edvard Munchs / testamentariske gave / OSLO KOMMUNE"
"Munch-museet / 1968 / Bo nr. 194-89 / Sch nr."
"illegible / MUNCH-MUSEET"

Printed in the image, lower right: "E Munch"
Catalogue raisonnéSch.33/A/a/II (of B), Woll 39 1st state of 7 (variant 2), format A (of D)

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