Four Girls in Åsgårdstrand
1922
Edvard Munch, the guy who gave us the screaming face of existential dread, actually had a soft spot for this coastal Norwegian village. In this sketchy, dreamlike scene from 1922, four girls stand in a row, their faces barely more than colorful blurs against a backdrop of loose, scribbled lines and washes of green and pink. It feels like a fleeting memory rather than a photograph, capturing the quiet summer days Munch loved so much at his retreat in Åsgårdstrand, far away from the angst of his most famous work.
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