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:

"In the same chair where I painted the sick (his sister Sophie), I and all my maternal relatives have sat winter after winter, longing for the sun, until death took them away. And all my paternal relatives have walked from left to right with anxiety..."