Edvard Munch Portraits

Edvard Munch’s most famous painting might be ‘The Scream’, but there’s so much more to the Norwegian expressionist than that one piece. The painter is also considered one of the great portraitists of the 19th and 20th centuries, and spent much of his artistic life creating intimate portraits of those in his life – from his family and friends to fellow artists, writers and art collectors in his orbit. Some of these works were commissioned; others were personal projects, but regardless of the motive behind them, all exhibit the elements that made Munch such an influential figure in portraiture.