Edvard Munch
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partly dressed, seated on the edge
of a rumpled bed.

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The sunlight dissolves
the colours and contours.

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There is a sense of softness,
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what Munch is to call later
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his "nervous dissolving
treatment of colour."

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Edvard, my brother, almost died too,
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from the same disease.
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Lord God, I beg you...
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The near-death of 13 year-old
Edvard Munch,

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from a pulmonary haemorrhage,
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took place on Christmas Day, 1875.
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Has all the suffering in your family
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affected your faith?
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I don't think it's for me
to interfere in God's will.

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He loves us and we must be grateful.
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In 1884 Edvard Munch
begins work on a canvas

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of his younger sister,
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a portrait that illuminates
her face and her hands.

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The remainder of her body
is shrouded in darkness.

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There is no movement,
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save for the tension
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in the slight raising
of the left hand.


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