Edvard Munch (1863-1944), “Vampire II” (1896). The Savings Bank Foundation DNB, on loan to Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo (all images courtesy of the British Museum unless otherwise noted) LONDON — ...
The absence of The Scream from the Edvard Munch retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art—it was, memorably, stolen in broad daylight from an Oslo museum—highlights something important about this ...
The nuances of suffering are here in all their shades: love and angst, certainly, but grief and loss, jealousy and loneliness are lived and reproduced in us as we look. For all Munch’s agonised ...