The Flower of Pain

Prints and Drawings

1898

Edvard Munch
Norwegian, 1863–1944

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Edvard Munch
Title: The Flower of Pain
Place: Norway (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1898
Medium: Black crayon, with graphite, on tan wove tracing paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, upper center, black crayon and graphite: "QUICKBORN"
Dimensions: 45.1 × 33 cm (17 13/16 × 13 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.992
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Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 141, cat. 100 (ill.).

London, The Leicester Galleries, New Year Exhibition, Jan. 1964.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 141, cat. 100 (ill.).

Heinrich Stinnes, Berlin. Louis MacMillan, Pennsylvania. The Leicester Galleries, London, to Mrs. A. E. Goldberg, London. Sold, Christie’s, London, Dec. 2, 1986, lot 154, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

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