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).

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 ...

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 ...