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...Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is among the world's most reproduced images. So when one of his original versions was stolen from Oslo's Munch Museum last August, along with his Madonna, the heist left art lovers as anguished as The Scream's subject. After closing for nine months, the museum reopened this summer with tighter security and a stirring new exhibit of works by the tormented Norwegian...
...Munch by Himself" is billed as a survey of the artist's self-portraiture. But whether nailed to a cross in Golgotha (1900) or lying in a pool of blood as the assassinated French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat in Marat's Death I (1907), Munch remains elusive, instead appearing in different metaphorical guises. There he is, too, leaning on a railing beneath a blood red sky in Despair (1892), an obvious precursor to The Scream...
...ller-Westermann assembled most of the exhibit's 150 oils, watercolors and graphic works from the Munch Museum's own vast collection, and added items from private collections and Stockholm's Moderna Museet, where she is the head of international art. Together the works form a powerful-and often uncomfortable-record of six decades of Munch's explorations of pain and troubled sexuality...
When Edvard Munch's painting The Scream was stolen last year from the Munch Museum in Oslo, it was hard to know how much comfort to take from the fact that 10 years earlier, a different version of the picture--there are four--had been nabbed from another Norwegian museum. On the one hand, it was a comfort that that version was returned unharmed. On the other, nobody seems to have learned anything from the first theft. Museum security was still utterly insufficient, in part because gallery officials depended on the fantasy that no one would steal such a famous...
...biggest art case in ages, the 1986 break-in at Russborough House near Dublin in which robbers made off with 11 pictures, including a precious Vermeer. In one of many cloak-and-dagger games the book recounts, Hill posed as the middleman for an Arab tycoon. He solves the Munch case by pretending to be a buyer for the wealthy J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, a role that allows him, as his work often does, to accessorize lavishly: seersucker suit, big bow tie, bigger Mercedes. It also requires him to steep himself in Scream scholarship. To ensure that...