Self-Portrait. Between the Clock and the Bed.

Self-Portrait. Between the Clock and the Bed.
ArtistEdvard Munch
Year1940–1943
Dimensions149.5 cm × 120.5 cm (58.9 in × 47.4 in)
LocationMunch Museum, Oslo, Norway

Self-Portrait. Between the Clock and the Bed. is a 1940–1943 self-portrait painting by Edvard Munch which is one of his last major works. Munch depicts himself as an unhappy, aging man who appears frozen and flattened. Behind him is a bright yellow room full of light and past paintings, but he has placed his current self between a faceless grandfather clock and a bed, symbolising the inevitable passing of time and where he will eventually lie down for the final time.