Self-Portrait Somewhere on the Continent I

Photographic self-portrait, taken in an unidentified room of spartan furnishing with an untidy bed in the background. The chair, whose image shows through the figure of the artist, as well as the cloudy atmosphere around him show that he has moved during exposure. It is not an ordinary double exposure. Munch developed a normal print and a mirrored version. The normal print can be identified by the fractured left hand. Certain clues, such as two circles in the foreground of the normal print were caused during development. We are led to believe that Munch was fascinated by such coincidences just as he was always anxious to retain artistic expressions that appeared accidentally. The pose and the melancholy mood reappear in "Self-Portrait with Wine".