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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Over eleven hundred paintings as well as sketch-books drawings and watercolours comprising some six thousand separate pictures about eighteen thousand prints and a mass of manuscripts letters photographs and other documentary material are now housed in the museum. It would hardly be an exaggeration to suggest that internationally too the Munch Museum in the wealth and scope of its exhibits yields pride of place to no other museum in its ability to illustrate the life and work of an outstanding pictorial artist. The unusually comprehensive collections are made available to the general public not only through exhibitions held continually in the museum itself but also in frequent exhibitions abroad as well as in the publication of literature illustrating various aspects of Munch’s art. Arne Eggum’s book lavishly illustrated with material the bulk of which is to be found in the museum itself provides a wide-ranging approach to Edvard Munch’s life and work. The author in his capacity as Chief Curator of the museum his long association with it and his responsibility for its day-to-day running is uniquely equipped for the task. In his official capacity as well as through comprehensive study of other relevant material he has amassed an unsurpassed wealth of knowledge and insight concerning his subject which in recent years has borne fruit in a series of special investigations associated with the presentation of Munch’s art both at home and abroad. This has made it possible for him in this book to introduce a considerable amount of new material that will rise and his place in his own times. (MP)