European & British Art, Part I

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Property from an Historic British Collection

Edvard Munch

Old Aker Church

Auction Closed

July 13, 12:35 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Historic British Collection

Edvard Munch

Norwegian

1863 - 1944

Old Aker Church

signed and dated EMunch 1881 lower left

oil on card

Unframed: 26 by 20.5cm., 10¼ by 8¼in.

Framed: 37 by 31cm., 14½ by 12¼in.

Andreas Bjolstad Jnr, San Francisco (the half-uncle of Edvard Munch; Bjolsted was Munch's grandfather's son from his second marriage. He emigrated to America and settled in San Francisco, where he became the vice consul for Norway.)

Sale: Christie's, London, 8 October 1998, lot 2

Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Gerd Woll, Edvard Munch, Complete Paintings, Catalogue raisonné, 1898-1908, vol. I, London, 2009, no. 39, p. 71, illustrated in color

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