Self-Portrait against Red Background
Edvard Munch · 1906
Palette
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
1863–1944 - Date
- 1906
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 120 × 70 cm
- Period
- 20th century
- Themes
- Portraits · Self-portraits
- Main colour
- Blue · lightness 41, colourfulness 36
Munch Museum. Commons file page. Public domain. United States: Dated 1906, before 1931 (Commons: PD-old-auto-expired, which states publication before 1931). Europe: Artist died 1944: public domain in the EU since 1 January 2015 (Commons: PD-Art|PD-old-auto-1923|deathyear=1944|country=Norway). Last checked 2026-10-31 (Commons file carries EU and US public-domain templates: yes). Image: a faithful photographic reproduction of a public-domain work, from Wikimedia Commons (PD-Art). Licence rules
