Munch’s work was targeted by the Nazi regime in 1933, when it condemned the work of 112 artists in a campaign to defame the modern avant-garde movement.
In May 2012, the image with which Munch is most widely associated, The Scream (1893), made for the “Frieze of Life” series, sold for $120 million at Sotheby’s to financier Leon Black. Munch is among a handful of artists who have achieved the highest auction prices in history. Another paint of the artist Self Portrait with Brushes from 1904 resides at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The image is one Munch painted in several variations. It was last exhibited in the 2015–16 exhibition “Munch: Van Gogh” at the Munchmuseet in Oslo and Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The later work set to go under the hammer at Sotheby’s, Self-Portrait with a Palette (1926), is an outdoor scene of the artist holding a set of brushes and painting palette. New Edvard Munch Biopic Provides a Confusing Portrait of the Iconic Norwegian ArtistĪccording to Sotheby’s, Munch added the embracing figures on the left-a recurring motif of couples between union and rift-at a later date.
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