Starry Night (Munch)
Edvard Munch · 1893
The story
Starry Night (Norwegian: Stjernenatt) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, from 1893. This night landscape represents the coastline at Åsgårdstrand, a small beach resort south of Oslo in Norway, where Edvard Munch had spent his summers since the late 1880s. In this painting Munch shows the view from the hotel window where he fell in love for the first time.
- Artist
- Edvard Munch
- Date
- 1893
- Collection
- Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United States
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
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