Edvard Munch Portraits

There’s way more to Edvard Munch than ‘The Scream’. The Norwegian expressionist 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. And you can see plenty of them in this National Portrait Gallery exhibition, the first UK show to focus on this sometimes overlooked aspect of his work.