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Badende Mann (Man Bathing)

Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch (1863-1944) Badende Mann (Man Bathing) Woodcut printed in blue and red, 1899, on thin, smooth wove paper, third state (of four), before additional gouging of the block particularly below the man, very rare, signed in pencil, a fine, fresh and subtle impression, printed by the artist Subject: 44.5 x 44.3 cm Provenance: P. & D. Colnaghi, London, 1974 Literature: Schiefler 126; Woll 149 Only one or at most very few proofs in black only were recorded before 1906 by Schiefler in his catalogue. Woll notes Greve’s assumption that the colour proofs were probably printed around 1917 (see Eli Greve,

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