NordicLife Culture + Taste + History + Events + Personalities Edvard Munch, Self-Portrait with Palette, 1926, oil on canvas EDVARD MUNCH PAINTINGS SOLD IN AUCTION Two paintings by Expressionist painter Edvard Munch went up for auction at London's Sotheby's Auction House in March. A self-portrait, which was originally painted in 1926, and " Embrace on the Beach, " which was painted for a children's nursery in 1904, went under the hammer as part of Sotheby's " Modern Renaissance " art sale that featured Impressionist and Modern works from the 1500s to present. " Embrace on the Beach " sold for US$22.6 million. The paintings came to auction at a time of renewed interest in the Norwegian artist amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as Munch's artistic themes focused on solitude, reflection and melancholy. sonsofnorway.com VIKING AUGUST 2021 7 COURTESY OF SOTHEBY'Shttp://www.sonsofnorway.com