The Flower of Pain
Edvard Munch · 1898 · Black crayon, with graphite, on tan wove tracing paper
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
The Flower of Pain is a public-domain drawing by Edvard Munch, dated 1898. Black crayon, with graphite, on tan wove tracing paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“The Flower of Pain” (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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