Munch was the key pioneer of Expressionism. In depicting nature in a highly individual, internalised manner, he drew on the tradition of 'mood-painting', characteristic of Nordic art towards the end of the nineteenth century, abandoning the plein-air naturalism which had dominated Norwegian landscape painting in favour of an emotionally charged and resonant vision of nature.
Sotheby's Edvard Munch's Rare Woodcut Prints & Multiples Auction In London on 29 September 2015 includes an earlier woodcut by Munch, "Angst", from 1896, estimated at £60,OOO-80,000. A version of the subject printed on thin Japan paper was last seen at auction over 20 years ago.
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