Pretenders: Ordeal by Fire II
Edvard Munch
1927
Medium
woodcut on wove paper
Dimensions
block: 46.04 × 37.78 cm (18 1/8 × 14 7/8 in.) sheet: 64.14 × 49.53 cm (25 1/4 × 19 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The Epstein Family Collection
Accession Number
2018.25.1
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...