In Photos: Edvard Munch Exhibition at the Met Museum, NYC

The Night Wanderer (1923-24)Munch exposes his own weakness and loneliness in this self-portrait stripped of all pomposity or self-regard. We see him not as artist here but simply an ageing, uneasy, isolated man walking around his house at night, peering at us with mystified unease. His hollow-eyed look makes him a walking embodiment of the empty blue night behind him, a man who the dark has got inside. Munch had painted nightmares in his youth in visions of terrifying symbolism like The Scream, yet the calm directness and observation of this later work is just as scary, if not scarier
Photograph: Ove Kvavik/Edvard Munch