27 June 2012 Last updated at 08:25

In Pictures: Edvard Munch exhibition

Self-Portrait: Between the Clock and the Bed 1940-1943

Norwegian artist Edward Munch may be best known for The Scream but an exhibition of 60 of his other paintings opens at Tate Modern in London on 28 June and runs until 14 October.

Munch, who was born in 1863, often repeated a single motif over a long period of time in order to re-work it. He created several different versions of his most celebrated works, such as this one - Girls on the Bridge.

Munch painted several starry night motifs seen from Munch's veranda at Ekely, west Oslo. The shadow in the foreground is most likely to be Munch's own.

Like other painters such as Bonnard and Vuillard, Munch adopted photography in the early years of the 20th Century and largely focused on self-portraits, which he obsessively repeated.

This is one of several versions of The Sick Child - the theme had clear personal associations for Munch, whose mother and elder sister who both died from tuberculosis when he was a child. It was his aunt who posed for the figure of the distraught woman.

This oil painting titled The Sun was painted around the same time Munch was invited to exhibit with Van Gogh, Gauguin and Cezanne at the Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne in 1912.

Self-Portrait A la Marat at Dr Jacobson's Clinic in Copenhagen, 1908 to 1909

Munch took this portrait while undergoing treatment for his mental health at a clinic in Denmark between 1908 and 1909..

Munch's Red Virginia Creeper is an unsettling work which features the vine enveloping the house, almost as if it is suffocating it.

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In Pictures: Edvard Munch exhibition

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