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Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch

1863–1944

WA-00017055

PaintingExpressionismImpressionismPost-Impressionism

Representation

None documented

39

Institutional Exhibitions

211

Works in Collection

291

Assets Indexed

4

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

90%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (2)

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Prints: Proofs and Variants

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1989–1990

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Master Prints from the Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1989

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Master Prints from the Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1987–1988

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Naked/Nude

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1986

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The Expressionist Idiom

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1985

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Selections from the Permanent Collection: Prints and Illustrated Books

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1984

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Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1983

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The Symbolist Aesthetic

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1980–1981

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Art of the Twenties

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1979–1980

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The Masterworks of Edvard Munch

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1979

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Selections from the Collections

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1978

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Impresario: Ambroise Vollard

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1977

Field Verification (4 fields)

1 cross-verified · 3 single-source

Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
BiographyWikipedia· 88%
NationalityArtsy· 85%
LocationGallery Generic· 72%

Source Registry (5)

Christies-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/edvard-munch
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Sothebyshttps://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/edvard-munch
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/4164
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
Artsy (bulk)https://www.artsy.net/artist/edvard-munch
Tier 1 · Institutional85%
Wikidata
Tier 1 · Institutional40%

About

Why this artist matters now

No biography available for Edvard Munch yet.

Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Expressionism

Medium

Painting

Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Rijksmuseum Museum of Modern ArtNew York Tate Art Institute of Chicago

Canonical record

Artworks (211)

The Gothic Girl (Birgitte III)

The Gothic Girl (Birgitte III)

1930 · Woodcut

composition: 20 1/4 x 12 3/4" (51.5 x 32.4 cm); sheet: 24 11/16 x 15" (62.7 x 38.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Self Portrait with Wine Bottle

1930 · Lithograph

Sheet 23 x 26 7/8" (58.5 x 68.3 cm) Comp. 16 1/2 x 19 7/8" (41.9 x 50.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Murder (Mord)

1928 · Lithograph

composition: 17 1/4 x 15 3/8" (43.8 x 39.1cm); sheet: 29 11/16 x 19 1/2" (75.4 x 49.5cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Self-Portrait with Hat I

Self-Portrait with Hat I

1927 · Lithograph printed in red ink on Japanese paper

Image: 20.2 × 18.5 cm (8 × 7 5/16 in.); Plate: 38.5 × 34 cm (15 3/16 × 13 7/16 in.); Sheet: 63.4 × 45.5 cm (25 × 17 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Self Portrait with Hat I

Self Portrait with Hat I

1927 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 8 x 7 3/8" (20.3 x 18.7 cm); sheet: 25 1/8 x 18 11/16" (63.8 x 47.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Sanatorium in Wiesbaden

1922 · Lithograph

Sheet 14 13/16 x 19 11/16" (37.6 x 50.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Frankfurter Bahnhofsplatz during Rathenau's Funeral

Frankfurter Bahnhofsplatz during Rathenau's Funeral

1920 · Lithograph

composition: 12 1/16 x 16 3/8" (30.6 x 41.6 cm); sheet: 14 13/16 x 19 1/2" (37.7 x 49.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Girls on the Bridge (Pikene på broen)

The Girls on the Bridge (Pikene på broen)

1919 · Woodcut and lithograph

composition: 19 9/16 x 17 1/16" (49.7 x 43.3 cm); sheet: 24 1/2 x 20 3/4" (62.2 x 52.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Girls on the Bridge

The Girls on the Bridge

1918 · Woodcut in blue and lithograph (from multiple stones) in yellow, green, orange and blue on white wove paper

Image: 50 × 43 cm (19 11/16 × 16 15/16 in.); Sheet: 63 × 52.8 cm (24 13/16 × 20 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Pretenders: The Last Hour

1917 · Woodcut

plate: 16 3/4 x 22 7/8 inches (42.6 x 58.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Galloping Horse

Galloping Horse

1915 · Etching on paper

Plate: 39.1 × 34 cm (15 7/16 × 13 7/16 in.); Sheet: 78.2 × 56.9 cm (30 13/16 × 22 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sunbathing I

1915 · Woodcut printed from two blocks in pink, orange, red, yellow, yellowish-green, blue, green, and brown ink on heavyweight cream wove paper

Image: 35.1 × 57.4 cm (13 7/8 × 22 5/8 in.); Sheet: 55.2 × 73.1 cm (21 3/4 × 28 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Smell of Death

The Smell of Death

1915 · Woodcut on paper

Image: 49.8 × 60 cm (19 5/8 × 23 5/8 in.); Sheet: 55.6 × 66.2 cm (21 15/16 × 26 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Neutralia

1915 · Color lithograph on paper

Image: 54.3 × 49.5 cm (21 7/16 × 19 1/2 in.); Sheet: 73.4 × 58.5 cm (28 15/16 × 23 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Melancholy III

1915 · Color woodcut from two blocks, with gouges, chisel and fretsaw, on paper

Image: 37.7 × 47.1 cm (14 7/8 × 18 9/16 in.); Sheet: 44 × 59 cm (17 3/8 × 23 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Adam and Eve

1915 · Etching on paper

Plate: 28 × 38 cm (11 1/16 × 15 in.); Sheet: 44.4 × 60.4 cm (17 1/2 × 23 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Bite

1914 · Etching on cream wove paper

Image: 19.7 × 27.6 cm (7 13/16 × 10 7/8 in.); Plate: 19.9 × 27.7 cm (7 7/8 × 10 15/16 in.); Sheet: 26.4 × 40.9 cm (10 7/16 × 16 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Jealousy

1914 · Etching and drypoint on cream wove paper

Image: 19.3 × 27 cm (7 5/8 × 10 11/16 in.); Plate: 19.9 × 27.8 cm (7 7/8 × 11 in.); Sheet: 26 × 40.4 cm (10 1/4 × 15 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Secret

1913 · Etching, aquatint and drypoint on white wove paper

Image: 15 × 23 cm (5 15/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Plate: 15.8 × 23.7 cm (6 1/4 × 9 3/8 in.); Sheet: 24.9 × 35.5 cm (9 13/16 × 14 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Seated Man

1912 · Lithograph on cream wove paper

Image: 32.5 × 25 cm (12 13/16 × 9 7/8 in.); Sheet: 45.5 × 32 cm (17 15/16 × 12 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Self Portrait

1912 · Lithograph

composition: 12 1/4 x 10 3/4" (31.1 x 27.3 cm); sheet: 25 1/4 x 17 7/8" (64.2 x 45.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Landscape, Kragerø

1912 · Oil on canvas

28 1/2 x 39 1/2 in. (72.4 x 100.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Omega's Eyes

1908 · Lithograph on paper

Image: 22.9 × 18.6 cm (9 1/16 × 7 3/8 in.); Sheet: 65.1 × 48.1 cm (25 11/16 × 18 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Alpha's Death

1908 · Lithograph on paper

Image: 28.6 × 50.2 cm (11 5/16 × 19 13/16 in.); 48.1 × 65.1 cm (18 15/16 × 25 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Artwork sources (6)

211 published of 289 catalogued · 272 with image

Art Institute Chicago
114 published114 img
MoMA
78 publishedof 156 catalogued145 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
7 published7 img
The Met
6 published
Rijksmuseum
5 published5 img
Tate
1 published1 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 7)

7 entries · 1 sources

Kristiana (Oslo) bohemiens I
1895 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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Man in een interieur zittend bij het raam
1895 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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Vrouw naast een ziek kind
1894 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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Het meisje bij het raam
1894 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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Woman with Red Hair and Green Eyes (The Sin)
1901 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Head of a Man
1906 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Alpha and Omega: The Wife Omega and the Donkey
1908 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

Artsy artist portrait

Artsy

The Girl by the Window (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

15

Movements5

Expressionism Impressionism Post-Impressionism Art Nouveau Symbolism

Collections10

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern Art Tate

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Tate

In collection

Rijksmuseum

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction

20 lots · 2019–2025

Market

Auction History

Range: $162,500 – $4,589,000

Work	Auction House	Date	Estimate	Hammer Price
Kvinne på verandatrappen	Christie's	Nov 2025	$500,000 – $800,000	$1,619,250
Morgen, Naken kvinne ved vinduet (Morning, Nude at the Window)	Christie's	Nov 2025	$2,500,000 – $3,500,000	$4,589,000
Vampire II	Christie's	Oct 2025	$150,000 – $200,000	$215,900
Der Kuss IV (The Kiss IV)	Christie's	Oct 2024	$100,000 – $150,000	Unsold
The Brooch. Eva Mudocci	Christie's	Oct 2024	$100,000 – $150,000	Unsold
Vampyr II	Christie's	Oct 2023	£400,000 – £600,000	£705,600
Familiescene. Sønnen ( recto ); Døden og barnet ( verso )	Christie's	Jun 2022	£120,000 – £180,000	£277,200
Madonna	Christie's	Oct 2021	$700,000 – $900,000	$870,000
Melancholy III	Christie's	Mar 2021	£150,000 – £250,000	£162,500
Madonna	Christie's	Oct 2020	$300,000 – $500,000	$375,000

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