Edvard Munch in his winter studio (1938) (image courtesy the Munch Museum, Oslo) SAN FRANCISCO — In early October 1889, Norwegian painter Edvard Munch left the city of Kristiania (now Oslo) for Paris.

Unfortunately, almost everyone has resonated at some time or other with Edvard Munch’s The Scream (1893). So much so, it seems, that a recent investigation found that the legendary masterpiece had ...

Edvard Munch is best known for The Scream, a painting of a tortured human face unveiled in 1893. But the famous painting is only a small piece of the Norwegian artist’s oeuvre, which includes ...

A Sotheby's employee looks Summer Day or Embrace On The Beach (The Linde Frieze) by Edvard Munch LONDON (Reuters) - Paintings by Edvard Munch, silverware by Pablo Picasso and a Banksy canvas are among ...

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, ...

LONDON — Norwegian painter Edvard Munch is almost a byword for his over-reproduced representation of psychological torment known as “The Scream” (1893). Its grimacing visage and loose, swirling ...

We've got Edvard Munch all wrong, said Nancy Durrant in The Times. The common perception of the painter of "The Scream" is that he was an "angsty Nordic loner", a tortured soul isolated from his ...

LONDON, March 11 (Reuters) - A new exhibition of portraits by Edvard Munch opens in London this week, shining a light on an important aspect of the Norwegian painter's work and his life. "Edvard Munch ...

The exhibition will be the first in the UK to focus entirely on Munch’s work as a portraitist - Heathcliff O'Malley Edvard Munch will be shown as a sociable rather than a reclusive artist in a new ...

In the Hamburger Kunsthalle art museum, one of the largest in Germany, there’s an oil painting by the great Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. A woman in her early 30s sits in profile, reddish gold hair ...