Object Details
- Artist
- Edvard Munch, Norwegian, b. Ådalsbruk, 1863–1944
- Date
- (c. 1920-1923)
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 32 1/2 x 31 1/4 in. (82.4 x 79.3 cm)
- Collection Object Type
- Painting
- Credit Line
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
- Accession Number
- 66.3699
Galerie van Diemen, Berlin, to at least 1926
Kommerzienrat Max Glaeser, Eselsfurth bei Kaiserslautern, by 1929-1931
Harald Holst Halvorsen, Oslo, to 1951
Ragnar Moltzau, Oslo, by November 1951
Marlborough Fine Art, London, to 22 November 1958
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 22 November 1958-17 May 1966
Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
Oslo, Blomqvist Kunsthandel, 1919 (See letter dated 9 February 2001 from Munch-Museet in Archive)
[KUNSTSALON GERSTENBERGER, Chemnitz, Germany. Exhibition, 1921 or 1924? See label fragment.]
STADTKUNSTHALLE MANNHEIM, Germany. "Edvard Munch 1926-27," no. 55 (as "Katze" and dated 1921).
KUNSTHÜTTE, STÄDTISCHEN MUSEUM, Chemnitz, Germany. "Ausstellung Edvard Munch," 15 November-11 December 1929, no. 56 (coll'n Gläser).
KUNSTHAUS ZURICH. "Edvard Munch, Paul Gauguin," 20 February-20 March 1932, no. 22 (as "Die Katze," dated 1920).
KUNSTNERNES HUS, Oslo. "Edvard Munch, Utsetilling malerier, akvareller, tegninger, grafikk," 10 November-16 December 1951, ill. p. 33 (coll'n Halvorsen).
HAUD DER KUNST, Munich. "Ausstellung Edvard Munch 1954-55," no. 86, p. 34. TOUR: Cologne. (Shown as "Kniender Frauenakt" and dated 1916.)
NATIONALMUSEUM, Stockholm. "Modern Konst Ur Ragnar Moltzaus Samling," April-June 1956, no. 83 (coll'n Ragnar Moltzau). TOUR: KUNSTAUS, Zurich, 1957; GEMEENTSEMUSEUM, The Hague, 19 April-11 June 1957.
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS, New York (organizer). "Paintings from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation Collection: A View of the Protean Century," no. 51, ill. p. 8. Tour: M. KNOEDLER & CO., New York, 31 October-24 November 1962; CURRIER GALLERY OF ART, Manchester, New Hampshire, 16 December-12 January 1963; CARNEGIE INSTITUTE, Pittsburgh, 30 January-26 February; EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS AND SCIENCE, Indiana, 16 March-12 April; MUNSON-WILLIAMS-PROCTOR INSTITUTE, Utica, New York, 30 April-27 May; J.B. SPEED ART MUSEUM, Louisville, Kentucky, 13 June-10 July; MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS, 30 July-25 August, SEATTLE ART MUSEUM, 11 September-8 October; SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF ART, 26 October-23 November; COLORADO SPRINGS FINE ARTS CENTER, Colorado, 11 December 1963-7 January 1964; DALLAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, 26 January-23 February; OKLAHOMA ART CENTER, Oklahoma City, 12 March-8 April; BROOKS MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, Memphis, Tennessee, 25 April-23 May; ATLANTA ART ASSOCIATION, Georgia, 10 June-7 July; SAGINAW ART MUSEUM, Michigan, 25 July-22 August; MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, 8 September-6 October; ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM, Pennsylvania, 24 October-21 November; MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Boston, 9 December 1964-10 January 1965; BROOKLYN MUSEUM, New York, 8 February-5 April.
MARLBOROUGH FINE ART, London. "XIX and XX Century Masters," Summer 1965, no. 45, ill. p. 72.
MARLBOROUGH-GERSON GALLERY, New York. "International Expressionism," part I, April-May 1968, no. 42, ill.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975.
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Boston. "Expressionist Challenge," 3 December 1985-9 February 1986. (Alternate title may be "Dissent: The Issue of Modern Art in Boston.")
KUNSTSAMMLUNGEN CHEMNITZ, Germany. "Edvard Munch in Chemnitz 1929-1999," 14 November 1999-20 February 2000, cat. no. 52, p. 151, colorpl. p. 93.
STADELSCHES KUNSTINSTITUT UND STADTISCHES GALERIE, Frankfurt, Germany. "Naked! The Female Body and the Rise of Modernism," 24 September 2003 - 1 February 2004.
FONDATION BEYELER, Basel, Switzerland. "Edvard Munch: Signs of Modern Art," 18 March-15 July 2007. TOUR: KUNSTHALLE WURTH, Kunzelsau, Germany, 3 August-16 December.
GENAUER, EMILY. "75 Choice Hirshhorn Paintings," New York Herald Tribune (4 November 1962), section 4, p. 7, ill.
UNSIGNED. "Hirshhorn Collection Opens at Arts Center," The Free Press Colorado Springs, Colorado (9 December 1963), n.p.
UNSIGNED. "A View of the Protean Century," Dallas Museum of Fine Arts Newsletter (January 1964), n.p.
UNSIGNED. "Le Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montreal à en Montre la Collection Hirshhorn," Granby la Voix de L'Est Quebec (19 September 1964), n.p.
PRESTON, STUART. "A Collector's Eye-View," New York Times (28 February 1965), section 2, p. 19.
LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N, Abrams, 1974), colorpl. 227, p. 727.
HELLER, REINHOLD. Munch: His Life and Work (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1984), fig. 162, p. 201.
EGGUM, ARNE. Edvard Munch og hans modeller 1912-1943 (Oslo: Munch-museet, 1988), no. 101.
DORN, ROLAND, et al. Edvard Munch, Sommernacht am Oslofjord, um 1900 (Mannheim: Städtische Kunsthalle, 1988), p. 287 (as Katze dated 1921).
REINKE, FRED. "Die Abgründe der Seele," Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (17 November 1999), ill.
UNSIGNED. "Edvard Munch in Chemnitz," Vernissage 7/22 (1999), colorpl. p. 35.
Signature
Signed LR In Oil: E. Munch
Inscriptions
Not DatedNo Visible Inscriptions
Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden