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Death in the sickroom Anxiety Madonna The Sick Child Kristiania Bohemia II Vampire Moonlight I The Urn The Voice / Summer night Young woman on the shore Kiss Blossom of Pain Red Virginia Creeper Red and White Train smoke Kiss IV Four girls in Årsgårdstrand The Brooch / Eva Mudocci Self-portrait with bottle of wine The Death of Marat II The Scream Galloping horse The yellow log Towards the forest II Model by the wicker chair Starry night Self-portrait. The night wanderer. Under the chestnut tree Self-portrait. Between the clock and the bed

Works from the collection

Anxiety, 1894
Oil on canvas. 94 x 74 cm
M 515

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Anxiety

The background landscape, inside Kristiania Fjord, is the same that we find in The Scream. The pale, ghostly faces come toward us like a procession of ghosts, in a line which could almost be seen as a funeral cortège.