Peer Gynt, End of Act I, Sketch
Edvard Munch
1922 - 1925
Medium
pen and black ink on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 11 × 10.9 cm (4 5/16 × 4 5/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Epstein Family Collection
Accession Number
2023.161.32
About the Artist
Edvard Munch · 1863–1944
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...