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Culture: Munch - a life in pictures; Chiefly famous for his painting The Scream, Edvard Munch was a long-lived and prolific artist whose later work is little known in Britain, writes Terry Grimley.(Features)
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The Birmingham Post (England)
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October 3, 2005
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Byline: Terry Grimley
The Norwegian painter Edvard Munch is one of those artists whose work has never been widely dispersed: if you want to see it in depth, you usually need to go to Oslo.
But for the next two months a significant part of the collections of the city's Munch Museum can be found much closer to home, at the Royal Acdemy in London, in Munch by Himself, a major exhibition devoted to the artist's self-portraits.
Though Munch rivals Van Gogh as one of late 19th century art's great depressives, this did not result in his premature death. Born in 1863, he ...
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