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Edvard Munch

The Scream

1893
91 × 73.5 cm (35.8 × 28.9 in)

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“I was walking along the road with two friends — the sun went down — suddenly the sky turned a bloody red… I stood there trembling with anxiety, and I felt a vast, endless scream pass through nature.”

— Edvard Munch, from his diary, written in Nice, January 1892

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