Sep 19, 2017 - Sale 2454

Sale 2454 - Lot 403

Price Realized: $ 8,450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
EDVARD MUNCH
Suse Cassirer (Paul Cassirers datter).

Drypoint on warm, cream wove Japan paper, 1906. 395x296 mm; 15 3/4x11 3/4 inches, full margins. Edition of approximately 50. Signed and inscribed "No. 19" in pencil, lower right. A superb impression of this very scarce print.

We have found only 3 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Woll cites the highest numbered known impression as "No. 42."

The sitter was incorrectly identified by Schiefler as Bruno Cassirer's daughter. She is in fact Suse (Suzanne Aimée) Cassirer, born circa 1894, the daughter of the influential Berlin art dealer/publisher Paul Cassirer (1871-1926). Schiefler 248; Woll 278.