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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1979,1215.18
Title: Object: Jealousy II; Object: Eifersucht
Description: Head of a man at left silhouetted against black; on the right a clothed man and a nude woman in front of a tree. 1896 Lithograph on Japan paper
Producer name: Print made by: Edvard Munch
School/style: Norwegian
Production date: 1896
Materials: paper
Technique: lithograph
Dimensions: Height: 478 millimetres; Width: 575 millimetres
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Curator's comments: This is from the edition printed by Lassally after 1906 (Woll's edition b). The artist has pictured himself in the background with one of his female muses, Dagny Juell, whose husband, Stanislaw Przbyszewski, is the brooding figure in the foreground. Juell was murdered in 1901 but Munch reused the motif between 1902 and 1908 to express the violent nature of his relationship with another woman, Tulla Larsen, who had finally rejected him for a younger painter, Arne Kavli. The same subject appears in a painting of 1895 (Bergen, Kunstmuseum) and in a slightly smaller lithograph 'Jealousy I' made at about the same time as the present print in which the face of Stanislaw Przbyszewski is on a larger scale and the figures in the right background are shown three-quarter length (an impression in the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford was acquired with assistance from the Art Fund in 1992; see Ronald Alley, 'Prints by Modern Masters', NACF Annual Report, 1992, p. 60). Lit. see Giulia Bartrum, (ed), 'Edvard Munch: love and angst', London, 2019, pp. 34 (detail of couple) 50, 52 no. 13, and p.199.
Bibliographic references: Schiefler 1907, 1927 / Verzeichnis des graphischen Werkes Edvard Munchs (58); Woll 2001 / Edvard Munch, the complete graphic works (69)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 1996 Apr-Jun, Houston, Mus. of Fine Arts, Landmarks in Print Collecting 1996 Jul-Sep, LA, Huntington Library and AG, Landmarks, 1996, Oct-Dec, Baltimore, Museum of Arts, Landmarks, 1997 Jan-Apr, Minneapolis, Inst of Arts, Landmarks, 2003/4 Sep-Jan, Tarragona, Sala Tarragona, Master Prints from BM 2004 Feb-April, Palma, Fundacio 'la Caixa', Master Prints from BM 2004 April-July, Lleida, Fundacio 'la Caixa', Master Prints from BM 2010 28 April-4 May, London, Royal Academy, London Original Print Fair 2019 11 Apr - 21 Jul, London, BM, G35, Edvard Munch: love and angst
Subjects: self-portrait
Acquisition name: Purchased through: Sotheby's (London, 26.xi.1979/236); Purchased through: Dr Frederick Mulder
Acquisition date: 1979
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1979,1215.18
Conservation: Mount; Treatment: 11.10.18

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