Self-Portrait. Between the Clock and the Bed.

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| title = Self-Portrait. Between the Clock and the Bed.

| image = Edvard Munch, Selvportrett. Mellom klokken og sengen.JPG

| artist = Edvard Munch

| year = 1940–1943

| medium =

| height_metric = 149.5

| width_metric = 120.5

| museum = Munch Museum

| city = Oslo, Norway

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Self-Portrait. Between the Clock and the Bed. is a 1940–1943 self-portrait painting by Edvard Munch which is one of his last major works. Munch depicts himself as an unhappy, aging man who appears frozen and flattened.{{cite web |last1=Jones |first1=Jonathan |author-link=Jonathan Jones (journalist) |title=Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed – in pictures |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/nov/22/edvard-munch-between-the-clock-and-the-bed-in-pictures |website=the Guardian |access-date=7 May 2023 |date=22 November 2017}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed |url=https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/edvard-munch-between-the-clock-and-the-bed |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=The New Yorker |language=en-US}} Behind him is a bright yellow room full of light and past paintings, but he has placed his current self between a faceless grandfather clock and a bed, symbolising the inevitable passing of time and where he will eventually lie down for the final time.{{cite web| url=https://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2017/edvard-munch| accessdate=2019-03-15| title=Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed| publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art}}