Sale 2532 - 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings, March 5, 2020

396  EMIL NOLDE Beim Absinthe . Etching, 1911. 105x145 mm; 4 1 / 4 x5 7 / 8 inches, wide margins. Edition of approximately only 20. Signed in pencil, lower right. A very good impression of this scarce, early etching. Schief ler/ Mosel 175. [2,500/3,500] 397 c EDVARD MUNCH Albert Kollmann . Drypoint printed in dark brownish black, 1902. 210x160 mm; 8 3 / 8 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 very good impression of this scarce drypoint. We have found only 2 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Kollmann (1837-1915), a German art collector andmystic, supportedMunch’s artwork and was portrayed by the artist multiple times throughout his career, once in a lithograph and twice in oil. This drypoint was likely used as a study for a double portrait of the sitter and the Danish writer Sten Drewsen, which is now in the Kunsthalle, Hamburg. Schiefler 159; Woll 181. [3,000/5,000] 396 397