Most people can name just one work by Norway's most famous artist, Edvard Munch. It's "The Scream," of course, which is actually a series — four versions of a single composition. The paintings ...

Edvard Munch, who never married, called his paintings his children and hated to be separated from them. Living alone on his estate outside Oslo for the last 27 years of his life, increasingly revered ...

As Prideaux (whose books include a biography of painter Edvard Munch) writes, “Apart from trying to discover the pictorial language to express the ethnographical mystery of the place and its people, ...