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A work made of lithograph in black on cream card.

The Hands

Edvard Munch · 1895

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Palette

Ivory
 62% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.2:1
Graphite
 17% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.2:1
Iron
 7% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.4:1
Stone
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1
Putty
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.9:1
Taupe
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.3:1

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
printed by Liebmann
Date
1895
Type
Print
Medium
Lithograph in black on cream card
Size
Image: 48.5 × 29.2 cm (19 1/8 × 11 1/2 in.); Sheet: 51.4 × 38.9 cm (20 1/4 × 15 3/8 in.)
Place
Norway
Period
19th century
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 69, colourfulness 12

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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