Cadmium yellow paint is an amalgam primarily of cadmium and sulfur. It was first commercialized in the 1840s, and soon gained renown among artists. Miró described the color as “splendid.” ...

Certain areas of the painting where Munch used cadmium yellow paint have started to lose color and flake off. To protect the piece, it has been kept in a climate controlled space at the Munch ...

Cadmium nitrate Cd (NO 3) 2 (a white powder) is used for making cadmium yellow and fluorescent pigments. It can also be used as a catalyst. Cadmium compounds are used in black and white television ...

He used cadmium yellow in several Impressionist works like The Artist’s House at Argenteuil, Bordighera and Stacks of Wheat (Sunset, Snow Effect) from his 1890–91 Grainstacks series.

The cadmium yellow is not the only pigment suffering these effects. The red pigments used in many of Van Gogh’s paintings are also losing their luster thanks to the compound minium, which ...

Art World The Cadmium Pigment Ban Is Officially Over in Europe Go paint the town red! Edvard Munch, The Scream (1910). Collection of the Munch Museum, Oslo.