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Vampire II
(Vampyr II)
(1895) {or (1902)}
Medium
colour lithograph and colour woodcut
Measurements
38.7 × 55.5 cm (image) 52.1 × 65.9 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1955
Gallery location
Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
Edvard Munch’s principal subject was the depiction of human emotions – love, jealousy, loneliness, desire and grief. He made multiple versions of an image of a woman embracing a man and kissing him on the neck. He titled the earliest painting on the subject Love and pain in 1893 but later exhibited it as Vampire, a title he retained in subsequent paintings and prints. Munch’s vampire was a personification of the femme fatale, a woman who could subjugate men with her sensual beauty, which was an immensely popular archetypal figure in late nineteenth-century art and literature.
Artwork Details
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Schiefler 34.IIb; Woll 41 vi/x
Edition
6th of 10 states
Printing/Publishing
printed by Lassally, Berlin
Inscription
inscribed in pencil l.r.: E Munch
inscribed in pencil l.r.: S. 34 b
Accession Number
3150-4
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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