Edvard Munch

Solskinnsdag i Åsgårdstrand (Sunny Day in Åsgårdstrand)

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Edvard Munch

1863 - 1944

Solskinnsdag i Åsgårdstrand (Sunny Day in Åsgårdstrand)

signed E. Munch (lower right)

oil on canvas

69.5 by 52.3 cm. 27⅜ by 20⅝ in.

Executed in 1890.

M. Skaar, Norway

Kaare Berntsen AS, Oslo (acquired by 1959)

Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 3 June 1961, lot 339

Christie’s, London, 27 June 1995, lot 149

Ulving Kunsthandel AS, Tønsberg

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Kristiania, Tivolis Udstillingsbygning, Kunstudstillingen, 1890, no. 89 (titled Solskinsdag)

New York, National Academy of Design and Høvikodden, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Edvard Munch and Harald Sohlberg. Landscapes of the Mind, 1995-96, no. 6, p. 133, illustrated in colour; p. 111 (titled Landscape, Åsgårdstrand and dated circa 1892)

Die Weltkunst, vol. XXXI, no. 10, 15 May 1961, p. 35, illustrated (titled Mann vor Meeresküste and dated circa 1892)

Exh. Cat., Oslo, Munchmuseet, Munch blir "Munch". Kunstneriske strategier 1880–1892, 2008, no. 117, p. 271, illustrated in colour

Gerd Woll, Edvard Munch, Complete Paintings, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, London, 2009, no. 210, p. 208, illustrated in colour