Comment:
This drawing is on the first page of an early sketchbook containing fifty-six pages of drawings. What is special about this sketchbook is that almost all the drawings have clearly been assessed and most have been graded ‘Good’ (just a few have been graded ‘Fairly good’). The grade is followed by a person’s initials which, unfortunately, are difficult to decipher. The drawing illustrated here may have been a school assignment, but most of the others are imaginative depictions of dramatic battles, cartoons, and caricatures, and the mystery of who is behind this first written judgement of Munch’s art currently remains unsolved.