Madonna ( Norwegian. Madonna , also known as "Conception" and "Loving Woman" [1] ) - a picture of the Norwegian expressionist artist Edward Munch . The first version of "Madonna" was painted in 1893-1894, lithography was performed in 1895, in total Munch created five versions of the painting [2] .
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| Edward Munch | ||
| Madonna 1894 | ||
| Madonna | ||
| Oil on canvas | ||
| Munch Museum , Oslo | ||
Madonna is depicted as a young naked woman with eyes half closed in ecstasy and her black hair loose. From the canonical image of the Madonna there was only a halo around the head. Lithography differs from the variant by oil in the form of a frame with sperm images and a small figure in the embryo position in the lower left corner.
The model for one version of the picture was Dagny Yul , the wife of the writer Stanislav Pshibyshevsky and a close friend of Munch [3] [4] .
Different versions of the Madonna are currently in the Munch Museum and the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo , as well as in the Kunsthalle in Hamburg . Two more versions belong to private collectors [2] .
Content
- 1 Theft
- 2 Legacy
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Theft
In 2004, two armed robbers removed the Madonna and the Scream from the museum [5] . In May 2006, when the paintings had not yet been discovered, a trial took place over the alleged abductors. Three people received from four to eight years in prison, two of them were also sentenced to heavy fines, three more were acquitted [6] . Police found the stolen paintings in August of that year [7] .
Legacy
In 2013, in honor of Munch’s 150th anniversary, the Norwegian postal company Posten Norge issued a postal block and four postage stamps depicting the artist’s paintings, including the Madonna at the price of 17 kroons [8] .
Notes
- ↑ Stenersen, Rolf. Edward Munch M .: Art , 1972
- ↑ 1 2 About the motif Scream and Madonna (link not available) . Munch Museum (May 15, 2008). Date of treatment October 8, 2009. Archived on April 8, 2012.
- ↑ Mary Kay Norseng. Dagny: Dagny Juel Przybyszewska, the Woman and the Myth . - University of Washington Press , 1991 .-- S. 8 .-- 219 p. - ISBN 0295969997 .
- ↑ Sue Prideaux. Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream . - Yale University Press , 2007 .-- S. 145. - 391 p. - ISBN 9780300124019 .
- ↑ Scream stolen from Norway museum . BBC (August 22, 2004). Date of treatment October 8, 2009. Archived on April 8, 2012.
- ↑ Three guilty of The Scream theft . BBC (May 2, 2006). Date of treatment October 8, 2009. Archived on April 8, 2012.
- ↑ Berglund, Nina Munch paintings recovered . Aftenposten (August 31, 2006). Date of treatment October 8, 2009. Archived May 24, 2011.
- ↑ Munch's “The Scream” on a Postage Stamp . ThorNews (February 14, 2013). Date of treatment January 23, 2019.
Links
- “Madonna (Munch’s painting)” in the database of the New York Museum of Modern Art (English)
- Madonna at California State University