A man stands in agony, his hand over his heart as if to prevent it from slipping out. Behind him, the apparition of a woman sails into the future. Munch presents a symbolically charged vision of separation, intimacy lost to the ebbs and flows of an ever changing present. Send in solidarity to a friend who has been forced to confront the realities of love. Perhaps as a consolation, that after a divorce, one has more fun.

Courtesy of the Munch Museum