On the Waves of Love
Edvard Munch · 1896 · Burnished aquatint and drypoint on heavy wove, cream paper
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
On the Waves of Love is a public-domain illustration by Edvard Munch, dated 1896. Burnished aquatint and drypoint on heavy wove, cream paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“On the Waves of Love” (1896) is one state of an image Munch often repeated in paint and in print. A print is not the same object as the painting of the same title.
About the artist
Edvard Munch (1863–1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker. Anxiety, illness, and the shore return across both paintings and prints. The Scream exists in more than one version.
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