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A work made of lithograph in black on ivory japanese paper.

Self-Portrait

Edvard Munch · 1895

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Palette

Oyster
 49% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.5:1
Soot
 42% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.8:1
Taupe
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.1:1
Putty
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.2:1
Stone
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.5:1
Iron
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.8:1

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
possibly printed by Nielsen Lassally
Date
1895
Type
Print
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory Japanese paper
Size
Image: 46.5 × 32.5 cm (18 5/16 × 12 13/16 in.); Plate: 48.2 × 36.3 cm (19 × 14 5/16 in.); Sheet: 59.7 × 44 cm (23 9/16 × 17 3/8 in.)
Place
Norway
Period
19th century
Themes
Portraits · Self-portraits
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 52, colourfulness 7

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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