The Sick Child

The Sick Child

Infobox Painting


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title=The Sick Child
other_language_1=Norwegian
other_title_1=Det syke barn
artist=Edvard Munch
year=1907
type=Oil on canvas
height=137
width=139
city=London
museum=Tate

"The Sick Child" (or "Det syke barn" in Norwegian) is an 1885 painting by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863 – 1944). It is a portrait of his older and favorite sister Sophie (Johanne Sophie b. 1862) who died of tuberculosis in 1877 at the approximate age of 15. Munch considered the painting "a breakthrough in my art".cite web
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Munch created numerous versions of the painting. The fourth version, painted in 1907, is presently in the Tate Gallery in London. In 1928, it was on display in the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden.In the 1930s and 1940s, the National Socialists labeled Munch's paintings as "degenerate art", and removed his work from German museums. They were taken to Berlin to be auctioned. Norwegian art dealer Harald Holst Halvorsen acquired several of Munch's paintings, including the 1907 version of "The Sick Child", with the goal of returning them to Oslo. In 1939, it was purchased by Thomas Olsen and donated to the Tate Gallery collection.

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