1901
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Woman with Red Hair and Green Eyes (The Sin) is a 1901 by Edvard Munch, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
A woman with fiery red hair stares straight at you, her green eyes sharp and unblinking. Her face is pale, almost glowing against the dark background. Munch often painted women who seemed dangerous or mysterious—what people at the time called "fatal women." This print is from 1901, when he was obsessed with the idea of love as something wild and even destructive. The long, loose hair wasn’t just a style; it was a symbol of raw, untamed passion. If you like this, look up *impasto*—a technique where paint is laid on thickly, giving a rough, textured feel that Munch sometimes used in his paintings.
The fatal women and embracing couples in Picasso’s art of the early 1900s exhibit striking affinities with the same themes in the prints of Norwegian symbolist Edvard Munch. Munch’s paintings and prints were widely circulated in Paris, shown at exhibitions, and available through dealers and fellow artists. Long hair as a key symbol of the fatal woman’s sexual allure is a recurrent theme in Munch’s art, as evident in this lithograph of 1900.
Edvard Munch often used red hair in his paintings, drawings, and prints as a symbol of sexuality.
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Edvard Munch ( MUUNK; Norwegian: ; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter.
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