Sale 2460 - Old Master Through Modern Prints, November 2, 2017

434 c EDVARD MUNCH Puberty . Etching printed in black on light tan imitation Japan paper, 1902. 195x156 mm; 7 3 / 4 x6 1 / 4 inches, full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right, and signed by the printer in pencil, lower left. Printed by Otto Felsing, Berlin. A brilliant, richly-inked impression of this scarce, important etching. Schiefler 164; Woll 186. [30,000/50,000] 435  EDVARD MUNCH Night Café . Etching printed in dark, brownish black on heavy, cream wove paper, 1901. 140x190 mm; 5 1 / 2 x7 1 / 2 inches, full margins. Edition of approximately only 30. Signed in pencil, lower right, and signed by the printer, Otto Felsing, in pencil, lower left. Inscribed “Af de 30 forste Expl.” in pencil, lower right. Printed by Otto Felsing, Berlin. A superb, richly-inked impression of this very scarce, early etching. Munch’s (1863-1844) etching of two prostitutes in the National Café, Berlin. We have found only 4 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Schiefler 138; Woll 161. [8,000/12,000] 436  EDVARD MUNCH From Åsgårdstrand . Drypoint printed in dark, brownish black on cream wove paper, 1907. 90x130 mm; 3 1 / 2 x5 1 / 4 inches, full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right. First state (of 2), before the additional heavy shading lower left. Edition of approximately 100. Signed in pencil, lower left. A superb, richly- inked impression of this very scarce, early print. Schiefler 260; Woll 289. [5,000/8,000] 436