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Edvard Munch / Galloping Horse

Galloping Horse

1912 · Oil on canvas

A horse pulling a sleigh gallops straight towards the viewer along a snowy road, scattering the people in its path.

LocationOslo, Norway
Dimensions135.5 × 110.5 cm

Why it matters

A horse gallops through the snow. Munch's painting was included by Michel Butor among the '105 decisive works of Western painting'.

Did you know?

  • It was painted in 1910–1912.
  • It is painted in oil on canvas.
  • It is in the Munch Museum in Oslo.

Based on the French Wikipedia article Cheval au galop (Munch) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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