Figure with Arms in Front of Body

Edvard Munch

1922-1926

Figure with Arms in Front of Body by Edvard Munch

Medium

pen and black ink on wove paper (sketchbook page)

Dimensions

sheet: 13.6 x 10.3 cm (5 3/8 x 4 1/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-W

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

The Epstein Family Collection

Accession Number

2011.84.3

About the Artist

Edvard Munch · 18631944

Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely psychological works made him a pioneer of Expressionism and one of the most influential artists of the modern era. His 1893 masterpiece 'The Scream' has become an iconic symbol of existential anxiety. Munch's art was profoundly shaped by personal tragedy—his mother died when he was five, his beloved sister Sophie at fo...

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