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Neutralia (Girls Picking Apples) (Apfelpflücken)
191522 1/2 x 20 13/16 in. (57.1 x 52.8 cm)
Edvard Munch
Norway (1863 - 1944)
Object Type:
Print
Medium and Support:
Color lithograph
Credit Line:
Marion Stratton Gould Fund
Accession Number:
1972.12
Location: Not currently on view
Munch's lithograph poster was originally designed for a poster that advertised a 1915 exhibition of Scandanavian art in Copenhagen, Denmark. This idyllic scene, though, is also a political commentary; the title refes to Denmark and Norway, both of which remained neutral during World War I (1914-1918). The two young girls picking apples symbolize those neutral countries along with their citizens who profited financially from that neutrality. Most telling of this work as a political statement is that, despite the seeming cheerfulness of the scene, the girls remain oblivious to the ship shown sinking in the background.
[Adapted from gallery label text, 2007]
[Adapted from gallery label text, 2007]
Bibliography
General references to this print in Werner Timm's "The Graphic Art of Edvard Munch," Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1969, plate 155.
Provenance
Anonymous sale ["various owners"], Sotheby's, New York, May 10-12, 1972, lot 295; purchased from that sale by the Gallery
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Recent Acquisitions & Memorial Bequests 1/8/1975 - 2/23/1975
- Prints from the Permanent Collection 1/9/1982 - 2/28/1982
- The Painterly Print Memorial Art Gallery 2/21/1997 - 5/18/1997
- German Expressionism: Art in the Age of Turbulence 8/3/2007 - 10/28/2007
- Edvard Munch and the Sea 4/9/2016 - 7/17/2016
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Title: Munch Materializes. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995. Volume Number: 38, Issue Number: 3. Issue Date: November 1972.
- Article Scope: Catalogue Raisonné entry and reproduction. Gerd Woll. Edvard Munch: The Complete Graphic Works. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001.
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