This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
-- Edvard Munch
   
Edvard Munch   Name:
Edvard Munch
Type:
Artist
Nationality:
Norwegian
Birth:
December 12, 1863
Death:
January 23, 1944
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