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A work made of etching with open bite and drypoint with burnishing in black ink on cream laid arches paper.

Attraction II

Edvard Munch · 1895

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Palette

Bone white
 51% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.9:1
Pale stone
 16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.0:1
Iron
 12% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.6:1
Warm grey
 10% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.7:1
Smoke
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.5:1
Taupe
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.8:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist
Edvard Munch
Norwegian, 1863-1944
Date
1895
Type
Print
Medium
Etching with open bite and drypoint with burnishing in black ink on cream laid Arches paper
Size
Image: 21.7 × 31.8 cm (8 9/16 × 12 9/16 in.); Plate: 26.6 × 33.5 cm (10 1/2 × 13 1/4 in.); Sheet: 30 × 43.4 cm (11 13/16 × 17 1/8 in.)
Place
Norway
Period
19th century
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 74, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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