Death in the Sickroom, Munch

This is one of the works where Edvard Munch openly combines the themes of illness and death. It stems from the artist's personal experience: the death of his sister from tuberculosis; an event that deeply marked him and contributed to the themes he would develop throughout his career.
He himself is the old man looking towards the chair, at the back of the painting, even though he was about fourteen years old at the time. There lies his sister, either dead or dying.
About this painting, the author himself said:

"En la misma silla donde pinté a la enferma, yo y todos mis familiares maternos, se han sentado invierno tras invierno, deseando la llegada del sol, hasta que la muerte se los llevó. Y todos mis parientes paternos han caminado de izquierda a derecha con ansiedad..."