Hyperallergic

Edvard Munch Was a Magician of Light

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 ...
The Forward

One of the world’s greatest artists painted my great-grandmother’s portrait — but who was Selma Fontheim?

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 ...
Yahoo

Edvard Munch exhibition to reveal warm, sociable man behind The Scream

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 ...
Reuters

Portraits by Edvard Munch go on show in new London exhibition

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 ...
Yahoo

Munch portrait, Picasso silverware and Banksy canvas up for auction

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 ...
Star Tribune

Did famed artist Edvard Munch paint this Minnesota portrait? Analysis points to 'yes'

Above: The unfinished portrait of "Eva," possibly by Edvard Munch, owned by St. Olaf College. All images courtesy of Steven Garcia. St. Olaf College let out an Edvard Munch-style scream after ...
Artnet

Edvard Munch Was Also an Experimental Photographer—See His Startling, Spooky Images Here

What the Gallery Says: “This exhibition of photographs, films, and a small selection of prints by Edvard Munch emphasizes the artist’s experimentalism, examining his exploration of the camera as an ...
Wall Street Journal

Minnesota College Has a Portrait by ‘The Scream’ Painter—Or It Doesn’t. Experts Won’t Say.

Officials at a small Midwestern college rejoiced when they learned the school owned what appeared to be an oil painting by Edvard Munch. Now they’d be excused if they wanted to scream. Nearly seven ...
The Art Newspaper

Art Basel Qatar, Dürer portrait debate, Paula Modersohn-Becker and Edvard Munch—podcast

Ben Luke talks to art market editor Kabir Jhala about the inaugural fair in Doha, explores the debate surrounding a painting ...
Artnet

This Small Minnesota College Thinks It Owns a Munch—and New Evidence Backs It Up. But Oslo’s Munch Museum Is Keeping Mum

The painting seems to depict Munch's one-time lover, violinist Eva Mudocci. Adam Finnefrock of Scientific Analysis of Fine Art and Flaten Art Museum director Jane Becker Nelson with Portrait of Eva ...
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Edvard Munch Was a Magician of Light

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