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 exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. 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 16×24 in a black frame.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Expressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1894)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- grand
- Rooms
- study or library, living room, dining room, dorm room, hallway or entryway
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
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
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
