The Sun ☰ Munch ☲ Canvas portrait The model was the artist's

The model was the artist's mistress

This painting is commonly mistaken to be his last

this is not a traditional landscape

Bal du Moulin de la Galette) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir is an everyday scene of real life

Modigliani had to ask Survage to return it

The Sun ☰ Munch ☲ Canvas portrait The model was the artist'sThe Sun (1911) by Edvard Munch is one of many works created in the planning for murals for the University of Oslo's ceremonial hall. It was his first major commission for a public institution, for which he made several hundred preparatory drawings and paintings over multiple years. It depicts a glowing sunrise over a rocky archipelago off the Nordic coast. Munch himself described the origin: "I saw the sun rise up above the cliffs I painted the sun."