Workers on the Building Site. Draft for a Decoration of Oslo City Hall
Oil on unprimed canvas
1931–1933
Inventory number: MM.M.00977a
Catalogue raisonné: Woll M 1685
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| Comment |
Painted on thin cotton canvas. The composition consists of a number of pieces of canvas which were assembled in 1965 and pasted onto two supporting canvases, each on separate stretchers. The given dimensions are those of both frames. The main section meas
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| Title | Arbeidere på byggeplassen. Utkast til utsmykning av Oslo rådhus (hoveddel) (NO) Workers on the Building Site. Draft for a Decoration of Oslo City Hall (EN) Arbeiter auf dem Bauplatz: Entwurf für die Ausschmückung des Rathauses in Oslo (DE) |
| Painter | Edvard Munch, Norwegian |
| Date | 1931–1933 |
| Classification | Paintings |
| Material/technique | Oil on unprimed canvas |
| Dimensions | Image: 220 × 570 cm Technical dimensions: 220 × 570 × 3,5 cm |
| Signed | Usignert |
| Owner/Collection | Munchmuseet |
| Inventory number | MM.M.00977a |
| Bibliography |
Woll, Gerd, "Recording the waves emitted by society", 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, s. 232
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Körber, Lill-Ann, "Munch and men. Work, nation, and reproduction in Edvard Munch's later works", Edvard Munch. An anthology, Oslo 2006, s. 174 Woll, Gerd, "Fra Aulaen til Rådhuset. Edvard Munchs utsmykningsprosjekter 1909–1930", Edvard Munch. Monumentale prosjekter 1909–1930, utst.kat., Lillehammer 1993, s. 103 Gauguin, Pola, Edvard Munch, ny utg., Oslo 1946, s. 292 |
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