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Colour woodcut in grey-brown on thick chamois-coloured Japan paper 37 x 57 cm (46.7 x 64.5 cm), framed under glass. Signed. - A small gap to the upper right corner; a short, narrow trace of moisture on the outer right margin. Woll 117 III; Schiefler 125 b Provenance Marlborough Fine Art London; Marlborough Galerie Zürich (with a label to the frame backing card); private collection Japan (since the 1970s); private collection Exhibition London 1969 (Marlborough Fine Art), Edward Munch - Emil Nolde. The relationship of their art, cat. no. 64 (with a label to the frame backing card); Munich 2012/2013 (Galerie Thomas), Edvard Munch - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, p. 42, p. 128 f. with a full-page colour illus. This woodcut, which was produced in several different coloured versions, some of which were partially hand-coloured, was based on the painting "Strandmystik" from 1892 (cf. Woll 281) and was presumably first printed in the colour variation offered here in 1906 (Gerd Woll, Edvard Munch, Werkverzeichnis der Graphik, Munich 2001, p. 135). Especially in Edvard Munch's landscapes, human moods and emotions find expression and become spheres of projection. "In summer he created his first Symbolist landscapes in Åsgårdstrand, and 'Strandmystik' was one of these pieces. 'Mysticism will always exist - and be created - the more we discover, the more things we will find that we cannot explain.' [...] The metamorphosis of nature and the anthropomorphization of the elements is also reminiscent of the world of Norse sagas." (Dieter Burchart, in: Exhib. cat. Edvard Munch - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Munich 2012/2013, op.cit., p. 42 f.)