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Edvard Munch's most famous paintings

The top 3 according to 6 votes from people: The Scream · The Sick Child · The Dance of Life. (Updated Sep 10, 2019.)

The Scream, Madonna, Vampire and the other pictures that made Munch Norway's most famous painter, and where they hang today.

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Top 17

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    The Scream

    1893. The figure and the blood-red sky over the Oslofjord; National Museum and MUNCH.

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    The Sick Child

    1885–1886. The memory of his sister Sophie; his breakthrough.

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    The Dance of Life

    1899–1900. A midsummer dance by the sea; central to the Frieze of Life.

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    Anxiety

    1894. Pale faces under the same red sky as in The Scream.

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    Evening on Karl Johan Street

    1892. Ghostly faces on Kristiania's main street.

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    Madonna

    1894. Considered by many to be one of his very best works.

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    Vampire

    1893. Originally titled Love and Pain.

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    The Girls on the Bridge

    1901. Painted in Åsgårdstrand, in many versions.

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    The Sun

    1911. The great mural in the University Aula in Oslo.

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    Puberty

    1894. A young girl on the edge of a bed and a dark shadow.

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    Melancholy

    1892. A man lost in thought by the shore.

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    Jealousy

    1895. A green face in the foreground and a couple behind.

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    The Kiss

    1897. Two figures merging by a window.

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    Starry Night

    1922–1924. The view from Ekely on a winter night.

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    Workers on Their Way Home

    1913–1914. A stream of workers walking straight at the viewer.

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    Self-Portrait. Between the Clock and the Bed

    1940–1943. The old painter between a clock and a bed.

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    Self-Portrait with Cigarette

    1895. Smoke and darkness; at the National Museum.

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