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WHAT MADE PICASSO ENVY THIS MAN? Of the Norwegian artist, Edvard His often disturbing images were and outrageous. Munch, Pablo Picasso once said, "He is symptomatic of the restlessness <1 Yet hls work had a lastln S effixt the only artist I’ve ever envied.” of his soul and his preoccupation ' on much of 20th century modemart. Like Picasso, Munch’s work was with desire, anxiety, jealousy, Edvard Munchs exhibition of strikingly different from that of his loneliness and death. 106 lithographs, Death and Desire, contemporaries. His exhibitions were banned gnu is now on display. The lithograph above, for example, from public display, because (Some and see for yourself what is titled‘Self-Portrait With Skeleton Arm’. they were seen as revolutionary made Picasso green with envy. r? A on KITTMrU DL 0 ■ An NZI Corporation Exhibition ED VAKLJ IVI UIN Cll Robert McDougall Art Gallery Christchurch. Death and Desire iw ■ 22 January-28 February,- 1988. MSTM. FCB 6057E2