A Boat Tied to a Pier
Edvard Munch · 1892 · Brush and black and gray wash, over touches of graphite, on tan wove paper
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
A Boat Tied to a Pier is a public-domain drawing by Edvard Munch, dated 1892. Brush and black and gray wash, over touches of graphite, on tan wove paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“A Boat Tied to a Pier” (1892) 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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