Solen

The Sun

Oil on canvas
1910–1913

Inventory number: MM.M.00362

Catalogue raisonné: Woll M 955

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Comment
Painted on plain weave linen canvas with 13 x 11 threads per cm2. The paint is applied alla prima, directly from the tube and partly modelled with a palette knife.
Title Solen (NO) The Sun (EN) Die Sonne (DE)
Painter Edvard Munch
Date 1910–1913
Classification Paintings
Material/technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions Image: 163 × 205,5 cm Framed: 175,6 x 218,6 x 8,5 cm Technical dimensions: 163,1 × 205,6 cm
Signed Usignert
Owner/Collection Munchmuseet
Inventory number MM.M.00362
Bibliography
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Thue, Sivert, "Munch's Postcards", Edvard Munch. The Modern Eye / Edvard Munch. Der Moderne Blick / Edvard Munch. L'oeil moderne, utst.kat. Tate Modern, London 2012 / Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt 2012 / Centre Pompidou, Paris 2011, kat.nr. 76, s. 201

Flaatten, Hans-Martin Frydenberg, Soloppgang i Kragerø: Historien om Edvard Munchs liv på Skrubben 1909–1915, (English edition: Sunrise in Kragerø. The story of Edvard Munch's Life at Skrubben 1909–1915), Kragerø 2009, s. 112

Eggum, Arne, "Children with Nature. The Landscapes of Edvard Munch", Edvard Munch. Paintings from the Munch Museum Oslo, utst.kat. Polytechnic Art Gallery, Newcastle 1980, s. 12

Stang, Ragna, Edvard Munch. Mennesket og kunstneren, Oslo 1977/Edvard Munch. Der Mensch und der Künstler, Königstein 1979/Edvard Munch. Leven en werk, Amsterdam 1979/Edvard Munch. The Man and His Art, New York 1979, s. 246
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