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Object record excerpt for Lost Art ID: 533078
Edvard Munch
Smuget (The Alley; The Street / Carmen), 1895
Lithograph and ink on Japan paper, 432 x 263 mm
on recto, lower right, signed: “E. Munch”
on verso, inscribed in pencil, upper right: “123”; lower left: “123”, “175_78”
Provenance:
(…)
By latest 2012: Cornelius Gurlitt, Munich/Salzburg
From 6 May 2014: Estate of Cornelius Gurlitt
Bibliographical references:
Schiefler, Gustav. Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks Edvard Munch bis 1906. 1st ed., Berlin: Bruno
Cassirer, 1907; repr., Oslo: J. W. Cappelens, 1974. [no. 36b, fig. Sch. 36]
Woll, Gerd. Evard Munch: The Complete Graphic Works. Oslo: Orfeus, 2012. [no. 43 II, ill.]
The Munch Museum, Oslo: cat. no. 146, Sch. 36, MM G 197
http://old.munch-museet.no/grafikk/details.asp?katnr=43 (13 September 2015) [ill.]
Primary sources:
Business records Hildebrand Gurlitt – possible references:
Sales ledger 1937–41:
31 August 1938 [no. 53]
11 September 1938 [no. 43]
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Sales ledger 1937–?:
31 August 1938 [no. 1125]
11 September 1938 [no. 1125]
Current (checking) account: 31 August 1938 [no. W. 12]
11 September 1938 [no. W.10]
Correspondence Hildebrand Gurlitt – possible reference:
1947 [vol. 6, fol. 505]
Register of Salzburg works, 2014, no. Wien 175_78
Further sources consulted (selected):
Edvard Munch: Ausstellung der Lithographien und Original-Radierungen. Exh. cat., Galerie Ernst
Arnold, Breslau, autumn 1913.
Ausstellung Edvard Munch im Züricher Kunsthaus: Vollständiges Verzeichnis der ausgestellten
Werke. Exh. cat., Kunsthaus Zurich, 18 June–2 August 1922.
Bücher, Handzeichnungen, Gemälde. Graphik des 16.–20. Jahrhunderts (darunter eine MunchSammlung). Plastik. Japan. Holzschnitte. Kunstgewerbe. Auct. cat., Max Perl, Berlin, 18–19 May
1933.
Katalog over Edv. Munchs malerier og grafiske arbeider fra tyske museer. Auct. cat., Harald Holst
Halvorsens Kunsthandel, Oslo, 23 January 1939.
Gauguin, Pola. Grafikkeren Edvard Munch. 2 vols. Trondheim: Brun, 1946.
Ausstellung Edvard Munch. Exh. cat., Haus der Kunst, Munich; Kölner Gemäldesammlungen,
Cologne; 1954–1955.
Cultural Plunder by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg: Database of Art Objects at the Jeu de
Paume
Database “Central Collecting Point München”
Database “Entartete Kunst“
Database “Kunstsammlung Hermann Göring”
Getty Provenance Index, German Sales Catalogs
Lootedart.com
Lost Art
Répertoire des Biens Spoliés
Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie
Verzeichnis national wertvoller Kunstwerke (“Reichsliste von 1938”)
Witt Library
Note:
One of an edition of about 100, of which the first thirty impressions on heavy white wove or grey
paper, the remainder on thin white paper.
Rights:
All rights to this report belong to the German Lost Art Foundation under whose administration the
Gurlitt Provenance Research Project operates.
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