Old Men and Genii

Crayon

1909

About the piece

Today, the canvas has turned yellow, and the crayon has faded.

Inventory number:

MM.M.00919

Catalogue raisonné

Woll M 860

Related works

Skisse til "Geniene"

Blyant

1909–1910

Geniene: Ibsen, Nietzsche og Sokrates

Olje på ugrundert lerret

1909

Keywords

Human
Symbolic motif

Details

TitleOldinger og génier (NO)
Old Men and Genii (EN)
Die Genien (DE)

Date1909

ClassificationDrawings

Tools/materialCrayon
Canvas

SignedUsignert

CreditThe Munch Museum

BibliographyPettersen, Petra, "Alma Mater – Munchs stebarn", Munchs Laboratorium. Veien til Aulaen, (English edition: Munch's Laboratory), utst.kat. MM, 2011, kat.nr. 8, s. 148 Pettersen, Petra, "Munchs Aula-dekorasjoner" / "Munch's Aula paintings", i Woll, Gerd, Edvard Munch. Samlede malerier / Complete Paintings, Catalogue Raisonneé I-IV, MM, Kaare Berntsen, London 2009, s. 829–851 Svenæus, Gösta, Im männlichen Gehirn II, Lund 1973, ill. s. 246 (omtalt s. 273 i bind I)