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A work made of woodcut printed from two blocks (one sawn into two sections) in gray-brown and black ink on cream japanese paper.

The Kiss IV

Edvard Munch · 1902

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Palette

Putty
 48% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.7:1
Linen
 30% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.9:1
Charcoal
 15% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.5:1
Iron
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.7:1
Taupe
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.7:1
Smoke
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.5:1

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
1902
Type
Print
Medium
Woodcut printed from two blocks (one sawn into two sections) in gray-brown and black ink on cream Japanese paper
Size
Image: 47.1 × 47.2 cm (18 9/16 × 18 5/8 in.); Sheet: 52.5 × 49.4 cm (20 11/16 × 19 1/2 in.)
Place
Norway
Period
20th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 64, 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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