SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) presents ‘Between the Clock and the Bed’ by famous Norwegian painter Edvard Munch through October 9, 2017.Norwegian painter Edvard Munch was influenced largely by 19th-century symbolism and German Expressionism in the early 20th century. One of his best known works is “The Scream” of 1893 which inspired pop artist Andy Warhol. It was also parodied and used in The Simpsons, Home Alone poster etc. A master by the age of 30, Edvard Munch (1863–1944) was among the most celebrated and controversial artists of his generation. But, as he confessed in 1939, his true breakthrough came very late in life.Featuring 44 landmark compositions about art, love, mortality and the ravages of time, Edvard Munch: ‘Between the Clock and the Bed’ uses the artist’s last significant self-portrait as a starting point to reassess a lifetime of painting. Together, these profoundly human and technically daring artworks reveal Munch as a tireless innovator and an artist as revolutionary in his maturity as he was in his breakthrough years. This exhibition includes treasured paintings from the artist’s own collection, six of them never before exhibited in the United States.The exhibition is on view at SFMOMA, Floor 4, 151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103.

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