Edvard Munch
Madonna
1894–95
Edvard Munch
The Scream
Edvard Munch · 1893
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- Artist
- Edvard Munch
- Year
- 1893
- Museum
- National Museum, Oslo
- Movement
- Expressionism
- Period
- 19th century
- Style
- Figure and allegory
- Format
- Portrait
Norwegian painter whose themes of anxiety and loneliness made him a forerunner of Expressionism.
Public domain work · Cleared for print
The story behind it
There isn’t just one “Scream”.
- Munch returned to it several times, in paint, pastel and lithograph. One pastel sold for about $120 million in 2012.
- His notes describe sensing “an infinite scream passing through nature” on a sunset walk; the figure isn’t screaming but hearing it.
- A pencilled line in a corner of the 1893 version reads “Can only have been painted by a madman”. A 2021 study showed it is in Munch’s own hand.
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