At the Roulette Table in Monte Carlo
, Edvard Munch (1892)
During 1891 and 1892 Munch stayed for periods in Niece in the south of France. He was a regular visitor at the casino in Monte Carlo. At times this was almost an obsession, something he treats in his literary notes.
Munch painted several paintings that from his memories from the roulette, where he conveys the nervous atmosphere at the game table, where loss or winning can have fatal consequences. At the same time he is experimenting with the stylistic forms of synthethism from Degas, Gaugagin and van Gogh.
