Art, literature & history
Alpha's Despair
1908/09
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Lithograph with crayon in black on heavy buff wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 41.9 × 34 cm (16 1/2 × 13 7/16 in.); Sheet: 65.1 × 48.1 cm (25 11/16 × 18 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1963.354
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Edvard Munch. Alpha's Despair. Edvard Munch; Art Institute of Chicago; Clarence Buckingham Collection. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Alpha's Despair — Edvard Munch. 1908/09.
Medium: Lithograph with crayon in black on heavy buff wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 41.9 × 34 cm (16 1/2 × 13 7/16 in.); Sheet: 65.1 × 48.1 cm (25 11/16 × 18 15/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.