Vampyr
by Edvard Munch
Artist
Edvard Munch
(Norge, 1863 - 1944)
Alternate Title
- Vampire
- Vampiren
Date1895
Medium
Lithograph and woodcut on paper
DimensionsBildmått: 38,5 × 55 cm
Pappersmått: 50,5 × 69,5 cm
Passepartout: 60 × 80 cm
ClassificationGraphic art
Credit LineDonation 1921 from Ester Lindahl
Countries
On view
StockholmRoomGallery 01:1
Object NumberNMG 106/1921
About the artworkEdvard Munch’s expressive, emotional paintings and prints explored themes such as anxiety, death and existential loneliness. His focus on the inner world of man, together with a dream-like and often symbolic imagery, as well as his subjective use of color and form influenced Surrealist artists such as Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst. The motif in Vampire, also called Love and Pain, originates in a drawing from 1890 and reappears in several paintings, lithographs and woodcuts. A woman embraces a man who rests his head against her body, her red hair falling around them as she bends down against his neck. Munch wanted to portray the conflict-filled relationship between man and woman, and here there is also an element of boundary dissolution between sexuality and violence that recurs in several Surrealist works of art.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Signerad i blyerts i nedre högra hörnet: "Edv Munch", Påskrift i mitten längst ned på framsidan av konstverket: "skador t.v. om v. anm. upptäckta den 15/11 1958 Thomas Paulsson" Oläslig påskrift på nedre höger hörn på framsidan av konstverket Påskrift nedre höger hörn på baksidan av konstverket: "60 x 76" Selected exhibition history Mannen med det blå ansiktet (den 15 maj 2021 - den 30 januari 2022) Moderna Museet Malmö Den underjordiska himlen. Surrealism i Moderna Museets samling Moderna Museet, Stockholm Edvard Munch - Bilder på ögats baksida/ Edvard Munch - Images on the back of the eye (2001) Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Signerad i blyerts i nedre högra hörnet: "Edv Munch", Påskrift i mitten längst ned på framsidan av konstverket: "skador t.v. om v. anm. upptäckta den 15/11 1958 Thomas Paulsson" Oläslig påskrift på nedre höger hörn på framsidan av konstverket Påskrift nedre höger hörn på baksidan av konstverket: "60 x 76" Selected exhibition history Mannen med det blå ansiktet (den 15 maj 2021 - den 30 januari 2022) Moderna Museet Malmö Den underjordiska himlen. Surrealism i Moderna Museets samling Moderna Museet, Stockholm Edvard Munch - Bilder på ögats baksida/ Edvard Munch - Images on the back of the eye (2001) Moderna Museet, Stockholm