Head by Head (Hode ved hode)

1905

Edvard Munch

Associated Names
Edvard Munch

Artist, Norwegian, 1863 - 1944

This print shows two people with their faces pressed against each other. Closest to us is a person in profile, looking towards the left. This person has long hair, a sharp nose, thin lips, dark eyebrows, and closed eyes. They are outlined in dark red. Behind them and slightly to the left is another person who is in three-quarter view, also turned to the left. This person appears to have shorter hair, deep-set eyes, a long nose, and thick, closed lips. They are outlined in dark green. Both figures are created with thick lines of color and wide sections of beige paper, and faint horizontal lines run through most of the print. The background around the two figures is dark blue with horizontal lines and some patches of curving vertical lines. The background of the print is beige paper.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color woodcut on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Epstein Family Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 39.5 × 54 cm (15 9/16 × 21 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 57 × 74.2 cm (22 7/16 × 29 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2023.161.10

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Woll 2001, no. 268

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Peter Deitsch Collection, New York, 1 February, 1968; purchased by Epstein Family Collection, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 2019

Associated Names

Bibliography

2001

  • Woll, Gerd. Edvard Munch: The Complete Graphic Works. New York, 2001: no .268

Inscriptions

"Edv Munch" lower right margin, graphite. Not dated. "3A)" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "600 [illeg.]" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "15/I25. [illeg.]" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "A1005" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "C3045 / (27)" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "65" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand.

Markings

"E L S" [Lionel and Sally Epstein] verso, red stamped ink.

Watermarks

None.

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