Two women on the shore

The themes of loneliness, sex and death are vividly expressed in Edvard Munch's color engraving "Two Women on the Shore." A young girl, dressed in white, looks sadly across the dark sea into an unknown future. She doesn't seem to notice the death figure next to her that she is destined to become. By combining the rough texture of a block of wood and limited to basic shapes and a few colors, the Norwegian artist has created a disturbing depiction of the sterility of love and hope. “Two Women on the Shore” is a visual poem about life and death: a young woman, lightly dressed, next to an old woman, dressed in black and kneeling, her face resembles a skull. The topic of the woman and her life stages was often discussed by Munch throughout his career.