One of only two public commissions Edvard Munch ever completed is marred by nicotine and chocolate. For the past century, his 12 monumental paintings depicting bucolic life have hung in the workers’ ...

I have always thought the worst thing about paintings is their static nature. That really is the main shortcoming of the form, isn’t it. Mona Lisa is so still. Whistlejacket – that near life-size ...

If your great-grandparents ever saw "The Scream," they probably experienced a slightly different painting than the one we see today. Edvard Munch used materials that make his paintings vulnerable to ...

‘It’s so impressive that you can’t imagine,’ wrote a 16-year-old Rego to her mother after seeing a Munch exhibition in London in 1951 He is the towering modern artist of the Nordics; she the most ...

The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch was well-acquainted with the world of medicine. He was the son and brother of doctors, and he suffered from medical and psychiatric illnesses throughout his lifetime.

Left: Edvard Munch, Self-Portrait in front of The Death of Marat, Ekely (1930). Right: X-ray image of Edvard Munch's left hand (1902) Self-portrait: Photo: Munch Museum / Edvard Munch. X-ray: Photo: ...

Edvard Munch’s The Scream is world famous. The image of a figure, hands to face, letting out an existential shriek, has been endlessly reproduced—on posters, T-shirts, mugs—and made into countless ...

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 ...

National Gallery of Australia founding director James Mollison was admired for his collection-building prowess: he snapped up works by Warhol, Brancusi and Matisse, but a significant painting by ...

Philanthropist Geoff Ainsworth has given the National Gallery of Australia the biggest gift of artwork in its history, buying it a major painting by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. “That defines the ...