Two Women on the Shore
Edvard Munch · 1898 · Woodcut printed from one block (sawn into three sections) in dark blue, green, black and red-brown ink with additions in green crayon on cream Japanese paper
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Two Women on the Shore is a public-domain illustration by Edvard Munch, dated 1898. Woodcut printed from one block (sawn into three sections) in dark blue, green, black and red-brown ink with additions in green crayon on cream Japanese paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Two Women on the Shore” (1898) 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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