Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005930The Flower of Pain
by Edvard Munch
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, upper center, black crayon and graphite: "QUICKBORN"
Provenance
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.
Exhibition history
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.).
Publications
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.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Edvard Munch / Norwegian, 1863–1944
- Date
- 1898
- Medium
- Black crayon, with graphite, on tan wove tracing paper
- Dimensions
- 45.1 × 33 cm (17 13/16 × 13 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- Norway
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.992
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