A work made of woodcut printed from two blocks in pink, orange, red, yellow, yellowish-green, blue, green, and brown ink on heavyweight cream wove paper.

Sunbathing I

Edvard Munch · 1915

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Palette

Linen
59% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.4:1

Biscuit
16% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.0:1

Green earth
11% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.5:1

Mushroom
6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1

Terracotta
5% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.5:1

Iron
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.1:1

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: 1915
Type: Print
Medium: Woodcut printed from two blocks in pink, orange, red, yellow, yellowish-green, blue, green, and brown ink on heavyweight cream wove paper
Size: Image: 35.1 × 57.4 cm (13 7/8 × 22 5/8 in.); Sheet: 55.2 × 73.1 cm (21 3/4 × 28 13/16 in.)
Place: Norway
Period: 20th century
Main colour: White & cream · lightness 76, colourfulness 18

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

Sunbathing I

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