Museum Exhibition
Strange Realities: The Symbolist Imagination
Art Institute of Chicago
October 4, 2025 – January 5, 2026
This display featuring over 85 Symbolist works on paper by artists including Edvard Munch, Odilon Redon, and Paul Gauguin captures the beauty and strangeness of a mysterious generation of artists.
Exhibition artworks
Representative work
Edvard Munch
The Scream
1895
Lithograph in black ink on cream card
Image: 35.5 × 25.3 cm (14 × 10 in.); Sheet: 51 × 38.5 cm (20 1/8 × 15 3/16 in.)
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Edvard Munch
Self-Portrait in Moonlight
1904–06
Woodcut printed from one block in blue and black ink on cream wove paper
Image: 75.4 × 42.3 cm (29 11/16 × 16 11/16 in.); Sheet: 80 × 57.1 cm (31 1/2 × 22 1/2 in.)
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Edvard Munch
Madonna
1895/96
Handcolored lithograph in black on mottled gray-blue wove paper (discolored to gray-green), laid down on white wove paper
Image: 60.3 × 44 cm (23 3/4 × 17 3/8 in.); Sheet: 60.7 × 44.4 cm (23 15/16 × 17 1/2 in.)
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Edvard Munch
Man's Head in Woman's Hair
1896
Color woodblock print on cream wove paper
63.5 × 48.3 cm (25 × 19 1/16 in.)
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Edvard Munch
Self-Portrait
1895
Lithograph in black on ivory Japanese paper
Image: 46.5 × 32.5 cm (18 5/16 × 12 13/16 in.); Plate: 48.2 × 36.3 cm (19 × 14 5/16 in.); Sheet: 59.7 × 44 cm (23 9/16 × 17 3/8 in.)
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Edvard Munch
Anxiety
1896
Woodcut in black ink on lightweight ivory laid proofing paper
Image: 46.3 × 37.5 cm (18 1/4 × 14 13/16 in.); Sheet: 49.1 × 39.2 cm (19 3/8 × 15 7/16 in.)
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Emilie Mediz-Pelikan
A Triple Portrait of Hermine, Emilia, and Helena
1897
Colored pencil on blue wove paper
50 × 72 cm (19 11/16 × 28 3/8 in.)
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