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A work made of woodcut printed from one block (sawn into three sections) in dark blue, green, black and red-brown ink with additions in green crayon on cream japanese paper.

Two Women on the Shore

Edvard Munch · 1898

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Palette

Bone white
 34% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.5:1
Sage
 30% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.9:1
Deep teal
 29% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.3:1
Celadon
 4% of the image
Green · text contrast 9.8:1
Smoke
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1
Cinnamon
 1% of the image
Pink · text contrast 5.8:1

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
Norwegian, 1863-1944
Date
1898
Type
Print
Medium
Woodcut printed from one block (sawn into three sections) in dark blue, green, black and red-brown ink with additions in green crayon on cream Japanese paper
Size
Image: 45.6 × 51.4 cm (18 × 20 1/4 in.); Sheet: 53.6 × 59.8 cm (21 1/8 × 23 9/16 in.)
Place
Norway
Period
Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Seascapes and the coast
Main colour
Green · lightness 63, colourfulness 15

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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