"Melancholy"
Print signature. Collotype. I. 6 x 13 cm, S. 14 x 18.7 cm.
Woll, Appendix IV, 1.
"Melancholy" is a series of oil paintings by Edvard Munch. The man in the foreground is the Norwegian writer and art critic Jappe Nilssen (1870–1931). Nilssen, who was a close friend of Munch, was at the time in an unhappy love affair with the older and married artist Oda Krohg. Munch created five oil paintings on this theme between 1891 and 1896 and two woodcuts between 1896 and 1902. The first painting from 1891 is exhibited at the Munch Museum in Oslo.