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A work made of lithograph in black ink on cream card.

The Scream

Edvard Munch · 1895

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Palette

Oyster
 28% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.4:1
Silver
 20% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.8:1
Warm grey
 16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.0:1
Graphite
 15% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.2:1
Smoke
 14% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.8:1
Slate
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.1:1

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
Lithograph in black ink on cream card
Size
Image: 35.5 × 25.3 cm (14 × 10 in.); Sheet: 51 × 38.5 cm (20 1/8 × 15 3/16 in.)
Place
Norway
Period
Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Themes
Portraits · Landscapes
Main colour
Grey · lightness 62, colourfulness 6

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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