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The Pretenders: By The King's Estate at Nidaros (?)
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The Pretenders: By The King's Estate at Nidaros (?)
1917 (
plausible)
Crayon, black
Wove paper. 265 × 208 × 0,1 mm (h × b × t)
Comment:
At the 1975 exhibition "Edvard Munch and Henrik Ibsen", this drawing was accompanied by the following text: "The drawing may possibly refer to the lines exchanged by Sturla’s men in the beginning of the fifth act:
One Man-At-Arms: How red it glows!
A Second: It stretches across half the sky, like a flaming sword.
Baard Bratte: Holy King Olav, what bodes such a fearsome sign?
An old Varbælg: Assuredly it bodes a great chief’s death."
(Translation: Francesca Nichols)
At the 1975 exhibition "Edvard Munch and Henrik Ibsen", this drawing was accompanied by the following text: "The drawing may possibly refer to the lines exchanged by Sturla’s men in the beginning of the fifth act:
One Man-At-Arms: How red it glows!
A Second: It stretches across half the sky, like a flaming sword.
Baard Bratte: Holy King Olav, what bodes such a fearsome sign?
An old Varbælg: Assuredly it bodes a great chief’s death."
(Translation: Francesca Nichols)
Bibliography:Woll, Gerd, "Angst findet man bei ihm überall," i Munch: Liebe-Angst-Tod, utst, kat. Bielefeld 1980, ill. s. 324
The Munch Museum, MM.T.00214-23
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