Woman's Head against the Shore
Edvard Munch · 1899 · Woodcut printed from two blocks (each sawn into two sections) in light green, orange, blue-green, and red-brown ink on ivory Japanese paper
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Woman's Head against the Shore is a public-domain illustration by Edvard Munch, dated 1899. Woodcut printed from two blocks (each sawn into two sections) in light green, orange, blue-green, and red-brown ink on ivory Japanese paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Woman's Head against the Shore” (1899) 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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