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 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
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 18×24 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 18×24. Prints at 12×16, 18×24 in — 12×16 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 18×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway.
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
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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.
