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The Smell of Death

Edvard Munch · 1915

Palette

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Details

Artist

Edvard Munch
Norwegian, 1863-1944

Date

1915

Type

Print

Medium

Woodcut on paper

Size

Image: 49.8 × 60 cm (19 5/8 × 23 5/8 in.); Sheet: 55.6 × 66.2 cm (21 15/16 × 26 1/8 in.)

Place

Norway

Period

20th century

Main colour

Gold & ochre · lightness 62, colourfulness 25

Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1944: public domain in the EU since 1 January 2015. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules