![DSCN9040 _ Edvard Munch - Between the Clock and the Bed, SFMOMA, 24 June - 9 Oct. 2017](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4261/35863210755_3240d5f75b.jpg)
The ongoing special exhibition at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed (June 24-October 9, 2017), "featuring 44 landmark compositions about art, love, mortality, and the ravages of time", which could well be a record of current turbulent time, is profoundly unnerving and ultimately moving. Moreover, "these profoundly human and technically daring artworks reveal Munch as a tireless innovator and an artist as revolutionary in his maturity as he was in his breakthrough years."
First, a group of self-portraits, dating from 1886 through 1940s, and one could see that Munch moved rapidly from almost quaint to deeply psychological.
![DSCN9041 _ Self-Portrait, 1886, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4237/35475455950_dd445a3f8d.jpg)
Self-Portrait, 1886
![DSCN9044 _ Self-Portrait under the Mask of a Woman, 1893, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4229/35475455800_2bdefbb980.jpg)
![DSCN9042 _ Self-Portrait with Brushes, 1904, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4288/35863210705_36d9103ee4.jpg)
Self-Portrait under the Mask of a Woman, 1893 & Self-Portrait with Brushes, 1904
![DSCN9048 _ Self-Portrait with a Bottle of Wine, 1906, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4238/35863210645_e998956fb7.jpg)
Self-Portrait with a Bottle of Wine, 1906
![DSCN9063 _ Self-Portrait with Hand under Cheek, 1911, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4213/35053887393_a7c8e3bae6.jpg)
Self-Portrait with Hand under Cheek, 1911
![DSCN9051 _ Self-Portrait with Bottles, ca. 1938, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4258/35863210415_d8ddf2e955.jpg)
![DSCN9055 _ Self-Portrait_ Between the Clock and the Bed, 1940-43, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4289/35863210045_8787e80502.jpg)
Self-Portrait with Bottles, ca. 1938 & Between the Clock and the Bed, 1940-43
![DSCN9057 _ The Night Wanderer, 1923-24, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4212/35863209415_de6f53bffc.jpg)
![DSCN9059 _ Self-Portrait with Hands in Pockets, 1925-26, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4234/35863209115_4d465af7ce.jpg)
The Night Wanderer, 1923-24 & Self-Portrait with Hands in Pockets, 1925-26
![DSCN9061 _ Self-Portrait by the Window, ca. 1940, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4206/35053887813_54a9fcd877.jpg)
Self-Portrait by the Window, ca. 1940
Then, a group of symbolism works, mysterious and forbidding, featuring isolated figure(s), or their shadows, in starkly outlined and dramatically lit environment:
![DSCN9068 _ Moonlight, 1893, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4265/35053887113_8b5c2c3eb2.jpg)
Moonlight, 1893
![DSCN9074 _ The Storm, 1893, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4233/35863208165_e0bbbc6ef7.jpg)
The Storm, 1893
![DSCN9071 _ Lady in Black (Olga Buhre), 1891, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4254/35053886993_4391085084.jpg)
![DSCN9082 _ On the Veranda Stairs, 1922-24, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4209/35053886693_12507d5939.jpg)
Lady in Black (Olga Buhre), 1891 & On the Veranda Stairs, 1922-24
![DSCN9077 _ Night in Saint-Cloud, 1893, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4261/35053886923_185a042d3a.jpg)
Night in Saint-Cloud, 1893
![DSCN9079 _ Starry Night, 1922-24, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4235/35053886803_268bdb6d61.jpg)
Starry Night, 1922-24
Next group focused on the ill and the dying, often with women as bereaved protagonists:
![DSCN9086 _ Inheritance, 1897-99, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4218/35053886643_11f054e293.jpg)
Inheritance, 1897-99
![DSCN9089 _ The Sick Child, 1896, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4253/35822575396_149a264cb9.jpg)
The Sick Child, 1896
![DSCN9095 _ The Sick Child, 1907, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4209/35053886493_1aabb4baeb.jpg)
The Sick Child, 1907
![DSCN9183 _ Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4217/35475447870_64afd7450c.jpg)
![DSCN9099 _ The Death of Marat, 1907, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4258/35822575236_593af2c230.jpg)
The Death of Marat, 1907
From the death, we moved onto works examining sexual awareness and tension:
![DSCN9102 _ Puberty, 1894, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4234/35053886393_4fece8d73d.jpg)
Puberty, 1894
![DSCN9106 _ Female Nude (Anna), 1920, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4214/35822575116_7b8aeaf51c.jpg)
![DSCN9115 _ Model by the Wicker Chair, 1919-21, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4211/35822574806_afd69d4a53.jpg)
Female Nude (Anna), 1920 & Model by the Wicker Chair, 1919-21
![DSCN9108 _ Weeping Nude, 1913-14, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4233/35475450770_9ea1845fca.jpg)
Weeping Nude, 1913-14
![DSCN9113 _ The Artist and His Model, 1919-21, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4211/35475450050_5f91225794.jpg)
The Artist and His Model, 1919-21
![DSCN9112 _ The Artist and His Model, 1919-21, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4287/35822574956_0b4485a72a.jpg)
The Artist and His Model, 1919-21
Then, back to more symbolic works. One of these, Despair (1894) recalled Munch's most recognizable work, The Scream, which was not part of the exhibition, though one hardly noticed its absence, when surrounded by so many insightful and disturbing works:
![DSCN9135 _ Madonna, ca. 1895-97, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4231/35475449580_804aa7a66f.jpg)
Madonna, ca. 1895-97
![DSCN9120 _ Ashes, 1925, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4236/35475449890_e369fc9104.jpg)
Ashes, 1925
![IMG_3123 _ Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4231/35053885283_372930bf8f.jpg)
![DSCN9126 _ Red Virginia Creeper, 1898-1900, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4217/35822574546_f2a2544f48.jpg)
Red Virginia Creeper, 1898-190
![DSCN9123 _ Despair, 1894, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4284/35822574686_31e9a3f356.jpg)
Despair, 1894
More self-portraits, featuring the artist examining himself in unflinching ways:
![DSCN9141 _ Self-Portrait with Cigarette, 1895, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4281/35475449390_30da271a1b.jpg)
![DSCN9151 _ Self-Portrait in Hell, 1903, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4287/35475449070_70a6a66d9c.jpg)
Self-Portrait with Cigarette, 1895 & Self-Portrait in Hell, 1903
![DSCN9137 _ Self-Portrait with the Spanish Flu, 1919, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4262/35822574406_c818d7525a.jpg)
Self-Portrait with the Spanish Flu, 1919
![DSCN9149 _ Man with Bronchitis, 1920, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4239/35475449190_444f4e3baf.jpg)
Man with Bronchitis, 1920
![DSCN9145 _ Sleepless Night: Self-Portrait in Inner Turmoil, 1920, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4286/35822574296_678bcb6699.jpg)
Sleepless Night: Self-Portrait in Inner Turmoil, 1920
Next group again, depicting the the death of his sister, as in the the two "Sick Child" above. These were just as personal to the artist, but the paintings were more somber and archetypal than individual:
![DSCN9154 _ The Smell of Death, 1895, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4238/35475448930_4f6b7a9025.jpg)
The Smell of Death, 1895
![DSCN9159 _ Death in the Sick Room, 1893, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4262/35475448640_c9bb0ede72.jpg)
Death in the Sick Room, 1893
![DSCN9157 _ At the Deathbed, 1895, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4214/35475448770_3d50776489.jpg)
At the Deathbed, 1895
![DSCN9162 _ Death Struggle, 1915, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4205/35475448460_dcda0b8823.jpg)
Death Struggle, 1915
![DSCN9180 _ Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4234/35053885373_2824b74263.jpg)
Finally, a final survey of the land of mystique and symbols:
![DSCN9164 _ Eye in Eye, 1899-1900, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4280/35475448390_16d90781f9.jpg)
![DSCN9176 _ The Kiss, 1897, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4236/35475448180_2233d98eca.jpg)
Eye in Eye, 1899-1900 & The Kiss, 1897
![DSCN9170 _ Jealousy, ca. 1907, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4240/35053885423_f4e2c4990d.jpg)
Jealousy, ca. 1907
![DSCN9172 _ The Dance of Life, 1925, Edvard Munch, SFMOMA](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4261/35475448110_68e51a4ec7.jpg)
The Dance of Life, 1925
Emotionally draining, yet hugely satisfying.
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