The Sick Child (Norwegian: Det syke barn) is the title given to a group of six paintings and a number of lithographs, drypoints and etchings completed by the Norwegian artist Edvard …

Edvard Munch: The Sick Child. Drypoint, 1894. Photo © Munchmuseet The most famous graphic version of the motif is nevertheless the lithograph. Unlike the painting and the etching, the …

The Sick Child, 1885 by Edvard Munch. The Sick Child (Norwegian: Det Syke Barn) records a moment before the death of his older sister Johanne Sophie (1862 - 1877) from tuberculosis at …

When Edvard Munch was thirteen years old, his sister Sophie died of tuberculosis. Nine years later, he created the first of five painted versions of The Sick Child, all representing Sophie just …

Munch was born into a middle-class family that was plagued with ill health. His mother died when he was five, his eldest sister when he was 14, both of tuberculosis; Munch eventually captured …

Munch himself was a sickly child, and much of his artwork flows from the atmosphere of sickness, dread and terrible grief that lay over the family. It is not surprising, given Munch’s background, …

Hailed as Edvard Munch’s breakthrough work, The Sick Child evinces his turn toward a more personal, expressive, and emotionally charged form of art. The painting is often seen in …