The Scream by Edvard Munch
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain

The Scream

Edvard Munch · 1895

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Sold by Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1963.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • The Art Institute of Chicago, January 22-May 1, 1994.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety and Myth", February 14-April 26, 2009, pp. 89, 93, fig. 94, cat. by Jay A. Clarke
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Strange Realities: The Symbolist Imagination", October 4, 2025 - January 5, 2026.

Literature

Published references

  • Gustav Schiefler,Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks Edvard Munchs bis 1906 (Berlin, 1907), p. 49, no. 32.
  • Gustav Schiefler, Edvard Munchs graphische Kunst (Dresden, 1923), p. 20, no. 32, pl. 18.
  • Werner Timm, The Graphic Art of Edvard Munch, trans. by Ruth Michaelis-Jena with Patrick Murra (Greenwich, Conn., 1969), pp. 70 and 310, no. 28 (ill.).
  • Gerd Woll, Edvard Munch: The Complete Graphic Works (New York, 2001), p. 69, no. 38 (ill.).
  • The Pictoral World of the Child (Cambridge, 2005).

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