Evening, Melancholy I
Medium
woodcut hand colored with watercolor
Dimensions
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Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Clive Runnels in memory of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
Accession Number
1959.82
Tags
About this artwork
Evening, Melancholy I depicts the jilted, tormented art critic Jappe Nilssen, Munch's friend, on the shore of Åsgårdstrand, a fishing village south of Oslo. Munch chose heavily grained blocks of wood, allowing the pattern of the board to add texture to the scene, and he exploited the handmade aspect of the technique by carving blocks crudely. He also experimented so that each impression is unique, using black ink on the woodblock and watercolor and gouache to color the sheet extensively. An exam...