Munch's "Self-Portrait with Hat (Right Profile) at Ekely", 1931

A month after Edvard Munch’s The Scream broke all records at auction, the Tate is prepares to open Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye, which explores the life of ‘illness, madness and death’ that spawned the artist’s uniquely dark visions.

Munch was born in 1863. His mother died from tuberculosis five years after his birth, as did his sister (aged 15) just nine years later. Anxiety, 1894

Ashes, 1895

Red Virginia Creeper, 1898-1900

Street in Åsgårdstrand, 1901

Self-Portrait 'A la Marat' at Dr Jacobson's Clinic in Copenhagen, which he entered in 1908 after a period of excessive drinking and brawling. He was subject to hallucinations and later wrote: 'My condition was verging on madness—it was touch and go'

Workers on Their Way Home, 1913-14

Kiss on the Shore by Moonlight, 1914

Starry Night (Stjernenatt), 1922-1924

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