
After the Scream: The Late Paintings of Edvard Munch
You’d never know that Edvard Munch, like James Ensor, went on living and painting well after his fifteen minutes of fame; but now that we’ve become fascinated by the late work of several innovators whose art presumably expired long before they did (de Chirico, Picabia), perhaps Munch, too, will be swept up in this sea change.
You’d never know that Edvard Munch, like James Ensor, went on living and painting well after his fifteen minutes of fame; but now that we’ve become fascinated by the late work of several innovators whose art presumably expired long before they did (de Chirico, Picabia), perhaps Munch, too, will be swept up in this sea change. The Scandinavian painter lived to be an octogenarian. What happened after his high anxiety of the 1890s? The sixty-plus works in the exhibition, curated by Elizabeth Prelinger, should yield some discoveries—his variations on earlier themes and,