The Kiss | |
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Artist | Edvard Munch |
Year | 1897 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 99 cm × 81 cm (39 in × 32 in) |
Location | Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway |
Accession | M0059 |
The Kiss is an oil painting on canvas completed by the Norwegian symbolist artist Edvard Munch in 1897. Part of his Frieze of Life, which depicts the stages of a relationship between men and women, The Kiss is a realization of a motif with which he had experimented since 1888/89: a couple kissing, their faces fusing as one in a symbolic representation of their unity. Exhibited as early as 1903, this work is held at the Munch Museum in Oslo.