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A work made of color woodcut on paper.

Head of an Old Man with Beard

Edvard Munch · 1902

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Palette

Putty
 50% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.8:1
Terracotta
 19% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.4:1
Graphite
 13% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.2:1
Bone white
 10% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.8:1
Sepia
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.5:1
Fawn
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · 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
1902
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodcut on paper
Size
Image: 46 × 32.5 cm (18 1/8 × 12 13/16 in.); Plate: 53.5 × 40 cm (21 1/8 × 15 3/4 in.); Sheet: 66.4 × 49.4 cm (26 3/16 × 19 1/2 in.)
Place
Norway
Period
20th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 61, colourfulness 21

Art Institute of Chicago, Print and Drawing Club Fund. 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

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