The painter’s portraits reveal less a tortured loner than a man who thrived in company. By Michael Prodger Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was a compulsive portraitist, and an odd one. Portraiture is the ...

Yes, for while the National Portrait Gallery’s Edvard Munch Portraits collects 40 or so portraits, which show many different sides to the man, the most delicious moments are those he painted as ...

Domestic cats have been living alongside humans for an estimated 10,000 years, first as rodent control and then as the couch-warmers we know and love. A far cry from the lone predator lifestyle of ...

Edvard Munch, Stanislaw Przybyszewski, Lithograph of paper, 1895 Born in 1863, Munch was one of the first truly modern painters. One who didn’t simply portray the physical world from a different ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Edvard Munch learnt quickly that “when I paint a person his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

While the seal bore his name, he stated, the signature did not match his own. Islam also told investigators that he only notarises documents within his law chamber and had no prior acquaintance ...

In 1901, Edvard Munch’s “Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones),” a chillingly enigmatic 1892 painting of a man and woman — Husband and wife? Lovers? Complete strangers? — poised on a rocky ...

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 ...

Edvard Munch Portraits is now open at the National Portrait Gallery, running until 15 June. Here’s what’s on display Edvard Munch’s most famous painting is undoubtedly The Scream (1893), which has ...

Walking into the NPG’s new Munch exhibition, you’re faced with the man himself, an early self-portrait when he was young and couldn’t afford the canvas to paint on so it’s a selfie on cardboard.

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 Portraits," which runs at ...