Evening on Karl Johan Street
1892 · Oil on canvas · KODE Art Museums, Bergen
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About this work
- Artist
- Edvard Munch (1863–1944)
- Year
- 1892
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 84.5 × 121 cm
- Collection
- KODE Art Museums, Bergen
- Movement
- Symbolism
- Series
- The Frieze of Life
A tight crowd in top hats and straw hats surges towards us down Kristiania's main street at dusk, faces yellow-green and wide-eyed, while a single dark figure walks the other way along the empty roadway. Lit windows glow in pink façades on the left, and the Storting building and tall trees stand against a deep blue sky. Munch painted it in 1892, drawing on an experience he described in his diary of passers-by who all seemed to stare at him. It is one of the earliest works of his Frieze of Life and belongs to KODE in Bergen, in the Rasmus Meyer Collection.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Night blue, brick pink and sickly yellow faces give a restless city picture for a hallway, entrance or study. Pair it with Toulouse-Lautrec's At the Moulin Rouge, another crowd of lamplit faces, at 36×24 in a black frame.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Symbolism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1892)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, study or library, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 36×24. Prints at 18×12, 24×16, 36×24 in — 18×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×16 above a console or sideboard; 36×24 as the statement piece above a sofa or headboard.
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — black suits the deep tones of this period; dark wood warms it.
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.
