Edvard Munch’s Madonna sold for £1.25 million
A hand-coloured image of Edvard Munch’s Madonna sold for £1.25 million today - doubling its estimate and making it the most expensive print ever to become sold in the united kingdom.
The controversial artwork, in Munch’s famous swirling painting technique, have been estimated to fetch £500,000 to £700,000 at Bonhams Prints sale working in london.
Bonhams asserted in addition to setting a UK record, the look seemed to be the second most expensive print to be sold in the planet.
Another Munch work, Vampire II, bought from Oslo in 2007 for around £1,256,000.
The Madonna artwork was purchased at Bonhams by a private buyer from the Usa, for £1,252,000 including buyer’s premium.
The job, which has not been proven in public before coming to auction, is signed and dated 1895, the year of its creation.
The artist re-worked his original idea many times between 1895 and 1902.
The print is in the initial state and is, according to Bonhams, arguably the first hand-coloured impression.
It shows the Madonna in yellow and white painting color set against a halo of blue, green and red.
The central figure is encompassed by a blood red border containing forms resembling sperm along with a
The model for the Madonna was Munch’s mistress, Dagny Juel, described as a ”femme fatale” who after numerous ill-fated affairs was shot dead by a young lover in a Tblisi hotel aged 33.
The work, described as being in ”excellent condition” have been within the same family in excess of A century.
Bonhams head of prints, Robert Kennan, said: ”It has been a real privilege selling this type of wonderful image and it fully needs to have achieved such a fantastic price.”
The work was sold on behalf of the estate of abstract expressionist artist Frank (Albert) Avray Wilson.
It had been previously in the assortment of his wife Ivy Eckbo, the adopted daughter of Eivind Eckbo, a Norwegian businessman and philanthropist who owned several Munch lithographs.
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