70 Munch Paintings Missing

The location and ownership of more than 70 important paintings by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch are unknown, according to scholars working on his catalogue raisonné. The researchers have been unable to trace significant works such as Old Aker Church (1882), Kiss (1892), The Girls on the Bridge (1902) and Felix Auerbach (1906). Munch painted multiple versions of many of his works and, in several cases, the location of variants of his most famous art is not known. “We know that these pictures exist, but don’t have all the information we need about them,” says Gerd Woll, the chief conservator of the team working on the catalogue, to be published in 2008. Since 2003, she and two colleagues have been gathering as much information as possible about the 1,700 paintings that Munch is believed to have produced. The paintings which cannot be found are probably in private art collections. “In some cases we have an idea who owns the works, but they have not replied when we’ve contacted them.” For the full story - click the title Irish Art