The Sick Child I (Det syke barn I)
Edvard Munch
Norwegian, 1863–1944
1896
A lithograph by Edvard Munch showing a pale, sorrowful girl in profile, made to turn personal grief and the fragility of illness into an intense, psychological image.
The face emerges from a haze of restless, cross-hatched marks and smeared greys while sudden, raw strokes of red in her hair and the dark surrounding tones create an intimate, haunted stillness.
One of Munch’s recurring explorations of sickness and loss, this print helped translate subjective emotion into a modern visual language that anticipated Expressionism and reached a wider audience through printmaking.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
composition: 16 5/8 x 22 7/16" (42.2 x 57 cm); sheet (irreg.): 19 15/16 x 26 1/8" (50.6 x 66.4 cm)
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Credit
Riva Castleman Endowment Fund, The Philip and Lynn Straus Foundation Fund, Edward John Noble Foundation Fund, Mary Ellen Meehan Fund, Donald B. Marron Fund, Johanna and Leslie J. Garfield Fund, Richard A. Epstein Fund, Miles O. Epstein Fund, Sarah C. Epstein Fund, and The Cowles Charitable Trust
Accession
353.2002
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