Madonna is the usual title given to several versions of a composition by the Norwegian expressionist painter Edvard Munch showing a bare-breasted half-length female figure created between 1892 and 189
Version from Munch Museum, Oslo. 1894. 90 cm × 68 cm (35 in × 27 in). It was stolen in 2004 and recovered two years later.
Version from National Gallery of Norway, Oslo. 1894–95. 91 cm × 70.5 cm (35.8 in × 27.8 in).
Version from Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg. 1895. 90 cm × 71 cm (35 in × 28 in)
An 1895 lithograph printed in black, hand-colored with red, yellow and green watercolor on gray cardboard turned green. Clark Art Institute
Dagny Juel-Przybyszewska was a Norwegian writer and artist's model, famous for her liaisons with various prominent artists, and for the dramatic circumstances of her death. She was the model for some
Madonna (Munch)
…was not known as a Christian. The affinity to Mary might as well be intended nevertheless, as an emphasis on the beauty and perfection of his friend Dagny Juel-Przybyszewska, the model for the work, and an expression of his worship of her as an ideal of womanhood. Werner Hofmann suggests that the painting is a "strange…
Dagny Juel with her son Zenon
The former Grand Hotel building in Tbilisi (left corner) where Juel was murdered.