19th

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Norwegian

Theaterprogramm: Peer Gynt (Theatre Programme: Peer Gynt)

Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch (1863-1944) Theaterprogramm: Peer Gynt (Theatre Programme: Peer Gynt) Lithograph, 1896, on thin wove paper, printed in Paris by the printing works of La Critique, presumably from the normal theatre edition of apparently 1400 (there were also a few proofs on Japan and a later edition without the theatre programme lower right Provenance: F. Mulder, London, 1982 Subject: 25 x 31.8 cm Literature: Schiefler 74; Woll 82 Gerd Woll notes that, ‘Lugné-Poë’s production of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt was presented at the Théâtre de l’Oeuvre in November 1896 with Jane Avril as Anrita and Alfred Jarry also in one of the roles…According to some sources Frits Thaulow and Edvard Munch made the sets for the play’

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