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Edvard Munch - Self-Portrait After Spanish Influenza

In this self-portrait, Munch sits in a wicker chair -  like the one his sister died in.  He faces outward, open-mouth, like the figure in his painting, The Scream.  Yet ... Munch is alive, when so many other people - during the same time frame - died from Spanish Flu.

Munch painted this work - Self-Portrait after Spanish Influenza - in 1919.  It is currently maintained in Oslo, at the National Gallery.