Omega und das Reh. 1908-1909.
Lithograph.
Woll 350. Signed. From an edition of ca. 100-150 copies. On Wove paper. 24 x 36.8 cm (9.4 x 14.4 in). Sheet: 34 x 42 cm (13,4 x 16,5 in).
Printed by Dansk Reproduktionsanstalt, Copenhagen.
• Munch made two drawings with an almost identical motif as early as in 1895.
• Other copies of this sheet are in possession of, among others, the Munch Museum, Oslo, and in public collections in Berlin, Chicago, Tokio or Hamburg.
• The complete series was shown in an exhibition at Blomqvist in March 1909.
• The sheet "Omega" is offered on the German auction market for the first time (source: artprice.com).

PROVENANCE: Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.

"My most accomplished creation ever" Munch about "Alpha und Omega" (quote from a diary entry by Ludvig Ravensberg from Januar 9, 1910, in: Edvard Munch. Alpha & Omega, published by Eggum/Woll, Oslo 1981, p. 53)

Munch had the idea for "Alpha and Omega" as early as in the mid 1890s when he made a couple of drawings for this theme. He only got back to it after a hospital stay in Copenhagen in autumn 1908 and began to work on the portfolio of lithographs. "Alpha and Omega" (Woll 336-357) comprises 18 lithographs, title sheet, table of content, two opening vignettes and two text sheets in Norwegian and French. [SL]

In good condition. With mount staining and small isolated handling creases. Mounting traces on paper on verso skillfully filled, minimally pushing through to recto.