
Leonard A. Lauder, Collector
Sankthansnatt (Midsummer Night)
Estimate
20,000,000 - 30,000,000 USD
Lot Details
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Leonard A. Lauder, Collector
Edvard Munch
(1863 - 1944)
Sankthansnatt (Midsummer Night)
signed E. Munch (lower right)
oil on canvas
41 ⅜ by 39 ¼ in. 105 by 99.8 cm.
Executed circa 1901-03.
Anton Fredrik Klaveness II, Oslo (acquired by 1916)
Anton Fredrik Klaveness III, Oslo (acquired by descent from the above)
Estée and Joseph Lauder, Palm Beach (acquired from the above through Hirschl & Adler Galleries on 19 October 1976)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Kristiania, Blomqvists Lokale, Edvard Munchs udstilling, 1903, no. 17 (titled Sancthansnat)
Berlin, Paul Cassirer, Edvard Munch, Phillip Klein, August Gaul, 1903
Berlin, Paul Cassirer, 1903
Vienna, XIX. Ausstellung der Vereinigung Bildender Künstler Österreichs Secession (Vienna Secession), 1904, no. 40, p. 15 (titled St. Johannisnacht)
Kristiania, Dioramalokalet, Edvard Munch udstilling, 1904, no. 69 (titled Sankthansnat)
Prague, Galerie Mánes, Edvard Munch, 1905, no. 110 (titled V noci Svatojanské)
Kristiania, Dioramalokalet, Edvard Munch udstilling, 1911, no. 38, p. 2 (titled Sommernat (Aasgaardstrand))
Frankfurt, Steinernes Haus, Edvard Munch, 1962-63, no. 27, n.p., illustrated (titled Johannisnacht and with incorrect dimensions)
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Edvard Munch, 1965-66, no. 34, p. 58, illustrated (dated 1901-02 and with incorrect dimensions)
Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefectural Modern Art Museum; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Art Museum; Kobe, Hyogo Prefectural Modern Art Museum; Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, Edvard Munch, 1970-71, no. 20, p. 75, illustrated; p. 133 (dated 1901-02)
Oslo, Munch-museet, Edvard Munch og den Tsekkiske Kunst, 1971, no. 110, p. 86, illustrated (dated 1901-02 and with incorrect dimensions)
New York, Neue Galerie, Munch and Expressionism, 2016, no. 41, p. 40 and 223; p. 187, illustrated in color
“Edvard Munch, XV. udstilling i S V U Manes, februar-mars 1905,” Pokroková revue, vol. I, 1905, p. 115
Volné Směry Umělecký Měsíčník. vol. XVII, 1913, p. 202, illustrated (titled Večer)
“Art: The Black Angels,” Time, 4 January 1963, illustrated in color
Edvard Munch and Gustav Schiefler, Briefwechsel, vol. 1, Hamburg, 1987, appendix II, p. 490 (titled Asgaardstrand (Picnic)); p. 492 (titled Johannisnacht), pl. 94, p. 509, illustrated (installed in the galleries of Commetersche Kunsthandlung, January 1906)
Gerd Woll, Edvard Munch, Complete Paintings, Catalogue Raisonné, London, 2009, vol. II, no. 489, p. 531, illustrated in color (with incorrect dimensions); vol. IV, p. 1606; p. 1608, illustrated (installed in the galleries of Commetersche Kunsthandlung, January 1906); p. 1664
Bernhard Echte, Walter Feilchenfeldt and Mitarbeit Petra Cordioli, eds., Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer, Die Ausstellungen 1901-05, «Man steht da und staunt», vol. II, Wädenswil, 2011, p. 254 (titled
Landschafts-u. Dorfszene in nordischer Sommernacht); p. 370, illustrated in color (titled Johannisnacht); p. 391 (titled Strohhutmädel auf der Straße)
Hans-Martin Frydenberg Flaatten, Måneskinn i Åsgårdstrand: Edvard Munch, Oslo, 2013, fig. 104, p. 155, illustrated in color; p. 274 (with incorrect dimensions)
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