Man's Head in Woman's Hair
1863 - 1944
Edvard Munch
Norwegian
The area of the heads has been cut out of the sheet on which the woodcut was printed and has been mounted on a backing, the same dark brown paper onto which Munch mounted impressions of his other woodcuts and lithographs for exhibition as a series, "The Mirror." In this case, a rough rectangle has been painted in red ('vermillion' and 'lake') behind the collage element, and a title written above, as a mockup of a poster for the exhibition. The collection also holds an impression of the poster (M21549).
Woodcut printed in black ink on tan wove paper, cut to the image of two heads and laid down on gray-brown cardboard, colored overall with black and red watercolor and gouache, with gold paint in the woman's hair