Edvard Munch only version not held by a Norwegian museum. The 1893 version was stolen from the National Gallery in Oslo in 1994 and recovered. The 1910 painting was stolen in 2004 from The Munch Museum in Oslo, but recovered in 2006 with limited damage. "The Scream" is Munch's most famous work, and one of the most recognizable paintings in all art. It has been widely interpreted as representing the universal anxiety of modern man. Painted with broad bands of garish color and highly simplified forms, and employing a high viewpoint, it reduces the agonized figure to a garbed skull in the
The Kiss (Munch painting) to the similarity of the room in "The Kiss" to Munch's own, as represented in "Night in Saint-Cloud", art critic Ulrich Bischoff considers the painting to have an autobiographical element. "The Kiss" was exhibited in 1903 at Munch's show "Love's Awakening", paired with a copy of his "Madonna". The painting is now part of the collection of the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway; the museum is dedicated to Munch and his works. Another prominent painting in western art history that is commonly referred to as "The Kiss" was painted by Gustav Klimt in 1907. The Kiss (Munch painting) The Kiss