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On January 22, 1892, Norwegian artist Edvard Munch wrote a fateful entry in his diary. He was in Nice, France, at the time, seemingly recalling a walk he’d once taken back in Kristiania (now Oslo).
Ideas about what the world is made of — its constituent elements — were running riot when Edvard Munch ... his father. Munch spent much of the decade in Paris, Berlin and Nice, France ...
Edvard Munch ... “Starry Night,” 1922-24, holds none of the jubilant wonder of its more famous namesake by Vincent Van Gogh. A winter nocturne, the frigid scene shows Munch’s own shadow ...
© 2006 Munch Museum/Munch-Ellingsen Group/Artists Rights Society, New York Edvard Munch ... when his mother and his sister Sophie died. Night in Saint Cloud (painted in 1890), a moody, blue ...
Despite the fact that The Scream is one of the world’s most famous paintings, the rest of Edvard Munch’s oeuvre remains relatively ... and often infused his paintings with a similar anxiety, Starry ...
Munch was the archetypal tortured young man. This we know. The Scream kind of gave the game away. Yet, as this exhibition shows, he wasn’t a complete loner. Along with his demons he had friends ...
A new exhibition of portraits by Edvard Munch has opened in London, shining a light on an important aspect of the Norwegian painter’s work and his life. Meanwhile, in the United States ...
In 1901, Edvard Munch’s “Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones),” a chillingly enigmatic 1892 painting of a man and woman — Husband and wife? Lovers? Complete strangers? — poised on a rocky ...