Masterworks of Printmaking and Drawing
- Dürer, Saint Christopher
- Claesz, Vignette with a Sphinx
- Tempesta, Turkish Soldiers
- Goltzius, Apollo
- Ribera, The Poet
- Callot, Les Danseurs
- Rembrandt, Nude Man Seated
- Ostade, The Hunchbacked Fiddler
- Everdingen, The Dilapidated Cottage
- Piranesi, The Well
- Goya, Esto Si Que Es Leer
- Descourtis, L'Amant Surpris
- Daumier, Aspect de le la Salle
- Meryon, Le Petit Pont
- Lessore, Barge Builders
- Lalanne, Rade de Bordeaux
- Andrieux, Don Quixote Telling
- Whistler, Wheelwright
- Buhot, Dèbarquement en Angleterre
- Toulouse-Lautrec, Repetition Generale
- Cross, Champs-Elyseè
- Zorn, The New Maid
- Munch, Alte Männer und Knaben
- Delâtre, Standing Peasant
- Vallotton, La Nuit
- Kollwitz, Tod Hält Mädchen
- Matisse, La Persane
- Sloan, Romany Marye's
- Villon, La Petite Mulatresse
- Walkowitz, Two Figures Seated
- Campigli, Woman with a Veil
- Eby, The Storm
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23. Edvard Munch (1863-1944) Alte Männer und Knaben (Old men and Boys) |
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Alte Männer und Knaben (Old men and Boys)
Woodcut, 1905, 352 x 440 mm, Schiefler 235. A fine impression on thin, white japan paper with good margins, signed in pencil; minor creases, mostly in the margins. This magnificent woodcut explores the technical ambiguities of three-dimensionality and flatness for expressive and symbolic purposes. The wall of the park, receding in perspective, viewed as a flat surface separates the old men and the boys into distinct compartments. The tree of life, behind the wall, superimposes its foliage over both groups, but breaks off half-way over the head of the oldest man on the left, who bends under the weight of approaching death. Not one of Munch's best known works, it is nevertheless a masterpiece of symbolist print-making.
