Mar 08, 2012 - Sale 2272

Sale 2272 - Lot 702

Price Realized: $ 9,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
EDVARD MUNCH
Platz in Berlin: Potsdamer Platz.

Drypoint printed in dark brown on heavy beige wove paper, 1902. 112x161 mm; 6 3/8x4 1/2 inches, full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right, and signed by the printer, Otto Felsing, in pencil, lower left. A superb, well-inked impression with all the delicate lines printing clearly, with warm plate tone and velvety burr of this very scarce, early print.

We have found only 2 other impressions at auction in the past 25 years. Schiefler 155; Woll 70.