Self-Portrait with Cigarette
1895 · Oil on canvas · National Museum of Norway, Oslo
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About this work
- Artist
- Edvard Munch (1863–1944)
- Year
- 1895
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 110.5 × 85.5 cm
- Collection
- National Museum of Norway, Oslo
- Movement
- Symbolism
Munch stands half-length in a dark suit and bow tie, lit from below so that his face and the hand holding a smoking cigarette at his chest glow against a haze of blue and violet smoke. He was thirty-two, living in Berlin and doing well. The painting was shown at Blomqvist in Kristiania in autumn 1895, where it was fiercely debated; after a lecture by the poet Sigbjørn Obstfelder defending Munch, the medical student Johan Scharffenberg cited it when publicly questioning the artist's mental state. The National Gallery bought it that same year, and it is now in the National Museum of Norway.
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
Smoky blues and violets with one lit face make a moody portrait for a study, office or library with dark walls. Hang it near Schiele's Self-Portrait with Physalis at 16×24 in a black frame for two young painters looking back at you.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Symbolism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1895)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- intimate
- Rooms
- study or library, home office, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway.
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.
