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Illness, insanity and death are the black angels that kept watch over my cradle and accompanied me all my life.
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Edvard Munch Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Edvard Munch available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Mini-site for the 2009 exhibition Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
The Sick Child, drypoint, 1894
Edvard Munch at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Boy in Blue, ca.1900
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Starry Night, 1893
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
Searchable exhibit: Edvard Munch - The Complete Graphic Works
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
"Works in focus:" Summer Night at Aagaardstrand
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Self-Portrait, lithograph, 1895
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Anxiety, 1896
(woodcut in the "Woodcut" section and a lithograph of the same work in the "Lithograph" section)
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
The Sin (Nude), print
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
2 works by or related to the artist
Falmouth Art Gallery, England
Norwegian landscape
Hammer Museum, California
Moonlight, 1895
The Vampire II, 1895
Hammer Museum, California
Portrait of a Young Woman, 1899
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Haugesund Museum of Fine Art, Norway (mostly in Norwegian) 
Vampyr
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
Kunsthaus Zurich
Winternacht, ca.1900
Kunsthaus Zurich
Musik auf der Strasse, 1889
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "M"
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan
McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College, Massachusetts
Edvard Munch: Psyche, Symbol and Expression (runs through 5/21/2001)
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Moonlight, 1895
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
6 works online
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Two Girls under an Apple Tree in Bloom, 1905
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
The Storm, 1893
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
The Sick Child
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
4 paintings by Edvard Munch are online (click "8", "9", "10" and "11")
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
Paul Hermann and Paul Contard, 1897
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
Woman with Poppies, 1918-19
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Madonna, 1895
The Albertina, Vienna
Winter Landscape, 1915
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Vier Mädchen auf der Brücke, 1905
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Zwei Menschen (Die Einsamen)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Edvard Munch
Website about Edvard Munch and his paintings
Edvard Munch at The Art Renewal Center
Edvard Munch at The Athenaeum
8 works online
Edvard Munch in the WebMuseum
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Boston College Fine Arts Department
California State University WorldImages Database
Self Portrait
Edvard Munch at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Rasiel's Wallpapers
(Click on the size of the scan you wish to view)
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Edvard Munch - Catalogue Raisonné Project
Ongoing project to create a catalog of the artist's complete paintings. Click "Information missing" to see a many lesser-known works for which the project lacks information.
Edvard Munch - The Dance of Life Site
Kilidavid
Scandinavian Art (mostly in Danish)
Theobald Jennings Fine Art Dealers, London, UK -- Notable past sales
Madonna, 1895
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Edvard Munch 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Apollo Magazine
Art as self-confession - a review of the first English-language biography of Edvard Munch
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"An image and an analysis of our times", 2004 article by Adrian Searle
The New York Observer
"At Last, a Munch Show Gives Us Spooky Norway", article by Hilton Kramer
The New Yorker
"Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul" at MOMA, 2006 review by Peter Schjeldahl
Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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After the Scream: The Late Paintings of Edvard Munch
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Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream
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The Symbolist Prints of Edvard Munch
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Graphic Works of Edvard Munch
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Edvard Munch
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