Why it matters
In a forest, a man sits hunched in shame while a dishevelled woman stands wide-eyed after their tryst, their passion burnt out. Munch wrote on a lithograph of it: 'I felt our love lying on the earth like a heap of ash.'
Did you know?
- It was painted in 1894–95.
- Munch was then having a secret affair with Millie Thaulow, meeting her in the woods.
- He painted a second version in 1925.
Based on the Wikipedia article Ashes (Munch) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
