The Day After
Edvard Munch · 1894 · Drypoint and open bite etching in black ink on lightweight ivory wove paper, laid down on heavyweight off-white wove paper (chine collé)
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
The Day After is a public-domain illustration by Edvard Munch, dated 1894. Drypoint and open bite etching in black ink on lightweight ivory wove paper, laid down on heavyweight off-white wove paper (chine collé). The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“The Day After” (1894) 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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