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Men on the Seashore
Date1908

Artist Edvard Munch (1863 Løten – 1944 Skoten bei Oslo)

ULAN

Object typePainting
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions
100 × 120 cm
SignatureSign. rechts unten: E. Munch
Inventory number2060
Location Upper Belvedere
Summer 1907. Munch traveled to Warnemünde, a resort on the Baltic Sea, for a period of recovery. He rented a small fisherman’s house not far from the sea, where he discovered a new subject. For the first time the Norwegian artist focused his attention on the naked male body. The following year, he painted two men in a frontal pose, while the third plunges into the waves to join the rest of the group. A photo shows Munch working on a variation of the same motif. He is standing on the sandy beach, holding a palette and paintbrush, a naked model posing in the background. This version was intended for an exhibition at Kunstsalon Clematis in Hamburg, but it never left the gallery’s cellar: “Naked men are still unusual,” as the collector Gustav Schiefler wrote to Munch.

Provenance
Exhibitions

1910 Hugo Perls.
1916 Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, München
1920 Ankauf Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, München

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