White Night. Aasgardstrand (Girls on the Bridge)

White Night. Aasgardstrand (Girls on the Bridge) is one of Edvard Munch's early painted versions of the bridge motif he returned to many times between 1901 and the 1930s. The scene belongs to Åsgårdstrand, the small coastal town on the Oslofjord where Munch bought a house in 1898 and where many of his summer motifs were formed. In this version, the diagonal bridge, pale road, enclosed garden, and vivid dresses turn a familiar seaside view into a charged arrangement of color and rhythm. The subject is closely related to the 1901 version now in the National Museum, Oslo, but belongs to the group of 1902 variants documented in Gerd Woll's catalogue raisonné. The Pushkin Museum version is usually identified in English as The Girls on the Bridge or White Night. Aasgardstrand (Girls on the Bridge).