Anxiety
1894 · Oil on canvas · Munch Museum, Oslo
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About this work
- Artist
- Edvard Munch (1863–1944)
- Year
- 1894
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 94 × 74 cm
- Collection
- Munch Museum, Oslo
- Movement
- Expressionism
- Series
- The Frieze of Life
A crowd dressed in black presses towards us, led by a man in a top hat, a bearded man in a hat and a young woman in a bonnet, all with pale, staring faces. Behind them a dark fjord with two ships winds under a sky of red, orange and yellow. Munch painted it in 1894, combining the faces of Evening on Karl Johan with the setting of The Scream; when it was first shown with the Frieze of Life it was titled Red Clouds. In 1896 he made a lithograph and a woodcut of the motif. The canvas is in the Munch Museum, Oslo.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A blazing red and orange sky over black figures makes a strong, unsettled picture for a study, office or hallway rather than a bedroom. Hang it beside Munch's The Scream at 18×24 in a black frame.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Expressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1894)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- grand
- Rooms
- study or library, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 18×24. Prints at 12×16, 18×24, 24×32 in — 12×16 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 18×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×32 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or dark wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
