Forskerne: midtre del med sittende kvinne og barn

The Researchers: Central Group with Alma Mater

Oil or tempera on unprimed canvas
1910

Inventory number: MM.M.00907A

Catalogue raisonné: Woll M 961

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Painted using thinned oil paint or tempera on unprimed cotton canvas. The latter is sewn together horizontally and also features a strip sewn on vertically to the right-hand side. In 1965 it was lined and mounted on a stretcher.
Title Forskerne: midtre del med sittende kvinne og barn (NO) The Researchers: Central Group with Alma Mater (EN) Die Forscher: Mittelgruppe mit Alma Mater (DE)
Painter Edvard Munch
Date 1910
Classification Paintings
Material/technique Oil or tempera on unprimed canvas
Dimensions Image: 270 × 242 cm Technical dimensions: 270 × 242 cm
Signed Usignert
Owner/Collection Munchmuseet
Inventory number MM.M.00907A
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Sherman, Ida, "Edvard Munchs ‘Alma Mater’. Tretti år i kamp med et motiv", Kunst og Kultur, 1975, s. 138
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