1896
The area of the heads has been cut out of the sheet on which the woodcut was printed and has been mounted on a backing, the same dark brown paper onto which Munch mounted impressions of his other woodcuts and lithographs for exhibition as a series, "The Mirror." In this case, a rough rectangle has been painted in red ('vermillion' and 'lake') behind the collage element, and a title written above, as a mockup of a poster for the exhibition. The collection also holds an impression of the poster (M21549).
design: 61.6 × 61 cm (24 1/4 × 24 in.) printed element: 45 × 35 cm (17 11/16 × 13 3/4 in.) mounting sheet: 70.7 × 67.3 cm (27 13/16 × 26 1/2 in.)
Woodcut printed in black ink on cream Japanese paper
19th centuryNorwegianWoodcut from two blocks printed in black and greenish gray, handcolored in pale orange, on Japanese paper
19th centuryNorwegianWoodcut printed in black, greenish gray, turquoise, and pale orange ink on cream wove paper, with dark blue crayon added to minimize the white outline of the man's head and torso
19th centuryNorwegianWoodcut from two blocks sawn into sections printed in orange, blue, dark blue, and green on white wove paper
19th centuryNorwegianWoodcut from two blocks cut into sections printed in gray, bluish black, and deep brownish orange inks on off-white wove paper
19th centuryNorwegianWoodcut printed in orange, black, and green inks on off-white laid Japanese paper
19th centuryNorwegianWoodcut with gouges printed on Japan paper
19th centuryNorwegianWoodcut printed in black, dark blue, brown and green ink, with added green crayon to fill in the missing portion of the green block, on cream Japanese paper
19th centuryNorwegianWoodcut with gouges printed in red ink on Japan paper
19th centuryNorwegianWoodcut from a sawn block in printed in black, red and greenish blue inks on off-white Japanese paper
19th centuryNorwegianWoodcut printed in red and three different colors of green ink on tan wove paper
19th centuryNorwegianWoodcut with gouges and fretsaw printed in black, reddish-orange, blue, and gray inks on thin Japanese paper mounted on a tan wove sheet, the mount's edges tinted to match the woman's face
19th centuryNorwegian