Beaches often provide the stage for deep feelings in the work of Norwegian painter and printmaker Edvard Munch. The artist’s preferred setting for his subject matter – which often revolves around love, pain and fear – was the flat, stony coast of Åsgårdstrand, located on the Kristianiafjord, where he had enjoyed spending his summers since 1888. This is also the case in the lithograph “Attraction I”, which is realised in dramatically dark tones and shows the heads of a man and woman turned toward...
Signature: Signed, lower right: Edv Munch
Kunsthandel, Norwegen (2001); MKdW (2001).
Arne Eggum: The Frieze of Life from Painting to Graphic Art, Oslo 2000, S. 75. Thorsten Sadowsky: Edvard Munch 1863–1944, in: Kunst und Küste. Ausgewählte Werke der Sammlung Kunst der Westküste, hrsg. von dems., Alkersum/Föhr, S. 198, Abb. S. 199.