Edvard Munch. Evening. Melancholy I (Aften. Melankoli I). 1896

Edvard Munch Evening. Melancholy I (Aften. Melankoli I) 1896

  • Not on view

The standard practice for creating color woodcuts is to carve separate woodblocks for each color and then ink and print them successively, one over the other, on a sheet of paper. Munch devised a simplified process in which he cut out each section of the composition from a single woodblock, like a jigsaw puzzle. He then inked each element in the desired color and fit all the pieces back together. With this method, printing required only one run through the press.

Gallery label from Edvard Munch: The Scream, October 24, 2012–April 29, 2013.
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
composition: 16 1/4 x 18" (41.2 x 45.7 cm); sheet: 16 15/16 x 21" (43 x 53.3 cm)
Publisher
Edvard Munch, Berlin
Printer
M.W. Lassally, Berlin
Edition
approx. 50
Credit
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
Object number
752.1956
Copyright
© 2021 The Munch Museum / The Munch-Ellingsen Group / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Department
Drawings and Prints

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