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A work made of woodcut printed from one block in blue and black ink on cream wove paper.

Self-Portrait in Moonlight

Edvard Munch · 1904–06

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Palette

Blue-grey
 43% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.7:1
Bone white
 30% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.5:1
Silver
 13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.2:1
Slate
 8% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.4:1
Ink
 3% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.0:1
Charcoal
 3% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.7:1

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
1904–06
Type
Print
Medium
Woodcut printed from one block in blue and black ink on cream wove paper
Size
Image: 75.4 × 42.3 cm (29 11/16 × 16 11/16 in.); Sheet: 80 × 57.1 cm (31 1/2 × 22 1/2 in.)
Place
Norway
Period
20th century
Themes
Portraits · Self-portraits · Night and moonlight
Main colour
Grey · lightness 66, 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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