Summer Day or Embrace on the Beach (The Linde Frieze)

paintings

90.5 x 194.9 cm (35.63 x 76.73 in)

oil on canvas

Dr Curt Glaser, Berlin (acquired circa 1914)Nationalgalerie, Berlin (acquired from the above in 1931, inv. no. A II 701; deaccessioned on 30th October 1937)Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, Berlin (transferred from the above, inv. no. 15662; titled Umarmung am Strand (Der Linde-Fries))Hermann Goering, Berlin (acquired from the above through Josef Angerer in December 1937)Harald Holst Halvorsen, Oslo (acquired from the above in January 1939. Sold: City Auksjon, Oslo, 19th January 1939, lot 13 (titled Omfavnelse, illustrated))Thomas Olsen, Oslo (purchased at the above sale for NK 8.600)Private Collection (by descent from the above. Sold: Sotheby’s, London, 7th February 2006, lot 34)Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Berlin, Leonhard Boldt's studio, 1905-06 Kristiania (Oslo), Dioramalokalet, Edvard Munch udstilling, 1911, no. 33 (titled Frise fra Aasgaardstrand) Berlin, Fritz Gurlitt, Kollektiv-Ausstellung Edvard Munch, 1914, no. 23, illustrated in the catalogue (titled Am Strande) Düsseldorf, Galerie Flechtheim, Edvard Munch, Ernst Barlach, 1914, no. 12 (titled Kuss) Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich; Bern, Kunsthalle Bern & Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Edvard Munch in Züricher Kunsthaus, 1922, no. 21 (no. 20 in Basel) (titled Kuss am Meer, Lindefries)Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Frühjahrsausstellung, 1923 Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Edvard Munch. Der Lebensfries für Max Reinhardts Kammerspiele, 1978, no. 32, illustrated in the catalogue Kiel, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Edvard Munch. Gemälde und Zeichnungen aus einer norwegischen Privatsammlung, 1979, no. 9, illustrated in colour in the catalogue Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung; Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle & Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Munch und Deutschland, 1994-95, no. 41 Oslo, Munchmuseet, Edvard Munchs sene livsfrise og Lindefrisen, 1998, no. 3 Lübeck, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Museum Behnhaus/Dragerhaus, Edvard Munch und Lübeck, 2003, no. 47, illustrated in colour in the catalogue (titled Sommertag)

Berliner Börsen-Courir, Berlin, 20th January 1906C. Glaser, Edvard Munch, Berlin, 1917, illustrated fig. 21, p. 134 (titled Kuss am Meer (Aus dem Linde-Fries) and as dating from 1903)F. Roh, "Entartete" Kunst. Kunstbarbarei im Dritten Reich, Hannover, 1962, listed p. 138 (titled Umarmung (Teil des Linde-frieses)) A. Eggum, Edvard Munchs Linde-Fries, Oslo, 1972, no. 3, illustratedVerboten, Verfolgt. Kunstdiktatur im 3. Reich (exhibition catalogue), Wilhelm-Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, 1983, p. 26 Kunst in Deutschland 1905-1937. Die verlorene Sammlung der Nationalgalerie (exhibition catalogue), Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, 1992, no. 356, illustrated p. 171 (titled Umarmung (aus dem Linde-Fries) and as dating from 1903)"Degenerate Art". The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany (exhibition catalogue), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1991-92, mentioned p. 132, footnote 21 (titled Embrace) U. Bischoff, Edvard Munch, Cologne, 1993, illustrated in colour p. 58 (titled Summer Day (from the Linde Frieze) and as dating from 1904-08) Edvard Munch – Theme and Variation (exhibition catalogue), Albertina, Vienna, 2003, fig. 4, illustrated in colour p. 173 (titled Summer Day and as dating from 1904-08) G. Woll, Edvard Munch: Complete Paintings, Catalogue Raisonné, London, 2008, vol. II, no. 613, illustrated in colour p. 632; illustrated in a photograph of the artist's studio p. 633N.H. Yeide, Beyond the Dreams of Avarice. The Hermann Goering Collection, Dallas, 2009, no. D82, illustrated p. 451 (titled Summer Day from the Linde Frieze)Edvard Munch: ou l’«Anti-Cri» (exhibition catalogue), Pinacothèque de Paris, Paris, 2010, illustrated in colour fig. 15R. März & A. Hollmann, Herman Göring und sein Agent Josef Angerer. Annexion und Verkauf "Entarteter Kunst" aus deutschem Museumsbesitz 1938, Paderborn, 2014, illustrated in colour p. 147 (titled Umarmung am Strand)

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