Family Scene. The Son
Edvard Munch sketched this tense family scene around a sickbed, drawing directly from his own traumatic experiences with illness and death in his family. The figures stare with wide, anxious eyes, while preliminary face studies at the top show the artist working through different expressions of grief and shock. This raw, intimate drawing captures the heavy atmosphere of a household waiting for the worst, a recurring theme in Munch's deeply personal Symbolist work that would later inspire his famous painting 'The Sick Child.'
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