LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

26.50 in. (67.30 cm.) (height) by 37.56 in. (95.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'E. Munch' (lower left)

Exhibited:

Berlin, Nationalgalerie and Oslo, Nasjonalgalleriet, Edvard Munch, 1927, p. 26, no. 88 and p. 37, no. 138, respectively (titled Aasgaardstrand). London, Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., Munch/Nolde: The Relationship of Their Art, Oils, Watercolors, Drawings and Graphics, July-August 1969, p. 12, no. 10 (dated 1903-1904 and titled Beach with Group of Trees). The University of Houston, The Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery; The New Orleans Museum of Art and San Antonio, The Witte Memorial Museum, Edvard Munch, April-September 1976, p. 126, no. 61 (illustrated in color, p. 127; dated 1903-1904 and titled Beach with Group of Trees).

Literature:

G. Woll, Edvard Munch: Complete Paintings, 1898-1908, London, 2008, vol. II, p. 616, no. 597 (illustrated).

Provenance:

Mr. and Mrs. Sverre Prydz, Lysaker (by 1927). Frithjof Tenvig, Holmestrand (circa 1930-1940 and until at least 1969). Cecil "Titi" Blaffer von Fürstenberg, Houston (by 1976). By descent from the above to the present owners.