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Ashes is an oil on canvas painting by the Norwegian symbolist painter Edvard Munch. Painted in 1894-95 it is now in the collection of the National Gallery of Norway in Oslo.[1][2]

Ashes
Artist	Edvard Munch
Year	1894-95
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	120.5 cm × 141 cm (47.4 in × 56 in)
Location	National Gallery of Norway, Oslo, Norway

The work depicts a critical scene in a lovemaking tryst between a couple in the forest, which has left the man hunched over in shame or dejection and the dishevelled woman wide-eyed and motionless in frustration or despair. The picture's title suggests that, for whatever reason, the heat of their passion had burnt out at that moment.

It is probably not insignificant that the scene was painted at a time when Munch himself was having a brief clandestine affair with Millie Thaulow, the wife of a cousin, during which they too would meet in the woods. In fact the artist wrote afterwards on a lithograph of the work "I felt our love lying on the earth like a heap of ash".

In 1925, at the age of 62, Munch produced a second more impressionistic version of the painting which hangs in Oslo's Munch Museum. If the incident portrayed in the painting was of a personal nature, it had clearly left its mark.

See also

• List of paintings by Edvard Munch
• 100 Great Paintings

References

На других языках

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[de] Asche (Munch)

Asche (norwegisch: Aske, auch: Nach dem Sündenfall) ist ein Bildmotiv des norwegischen Malers Edvard Munch, das er in zwei Gemälden und drei Grafiken ausführte. Die Hauptversion stammt aus dem Jahr 1895 und wird in der Norwegischen Nationalgalerie ausgestellt. Sie ist Teil von Munchs Lebensfries, der Zusammenstellung seiner zentralen Werke über die Themen Leben, Liebe und Tod. Im Bild dargestellt sind eine frontal dem Betrachter zugewandte Frau und ein kauernder abgewandter Mann. Das Thema wurde interpretiert als der Moment nach dem Liebesakt oder das Ende einer Liebesbeziehung.

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- [en] Ashes (Munch)

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[ru] Пепел (картина Мунка)

Пепел (норв. Aske) — картина норвежского художника-экспрессиониста Эдварда Мунка, написанная в 1894 году. Входила в цикл работ «Фриз жизни: поэма о любви, жизни и смерти», в раздел «Расцвет и закат любви»[2]. Как и многие другие картины Мунка, существует в нескольких вариантах, в том числе в виде гравюры.

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