Munch
Norwegian Landscape
1908
ARTIST:
Munch, Edvard b.1863 Norway d.1944 Norway
Technique:
Drypoint Etching, not signed, not dated
Paper:
Fine wove 18 x 22 cm
Condition:
Excellent
Realisation / Publication:
First published in Berlin in 1919 by Paul Cassirer
Reference / Literature:
See Woll, The Complete Graphic Works, Willoch, # 139, and Schieffer # 268
Provenance:
Sylvan Cole Gallery, Madrid, 2016
Asking:
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This is the first work Munch was thought to have completed after he recovered from a “nervous breakdown” in 1908. The trait that characterizes many of Munch’s works; an oblique angle, represented by a road, bridge or path that cuts across the pictorial plane and leads the eye to a vanishing point, is present in this work in what appears to be a canal or sluice. These trenches are used for irrigation and proliferate the farmland of Europe even today. Here, the absence of the human form is metaphoric to convey the psychological tumult in individuals. This notion is given agency in the trench that divides the landscape, obliquely, in half. On the left, the barren field lay dormant suggesting winter, while on the right, the farmhouse is distant, yet longs for human occupation. In these polarizing motifs, echo the nature of psychological distress, much like Munch had experienced.
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