Bonhams in London will put a group of works by Edvard Munch under the hammer on 27 October 2026, drawn from the collection built by Norwegian collectors Bjarne and Iwona Rieber. The sale, titled Northern Light, gathers Scandinavian art assembled over years by the couple, and places Munch beside Harald Sohlberg, Michael Ancher and Nikolai Astrup, giving the session a distinctly northern character.

The leading Munch lot is Two Women on the Shore, a woodcut dating from 1898 and measuring 45.5 by 51 centimetres. It carries an estimate of £500,000 to £700,000. Signed in pencil on Japan paper, the impression is thought to have been printed around 1917, with the moon and its reflection added by stencil, details that set this impression apart from other versions of the same image and that matter greatly when comparing prices for Munch prints.

Two further Munch works underline the sale's focus on the artist as a printmaker rather than only as a painter. Vampire II, from one of his most recognisable cycles of lovers caught between tenderness and unease, is estimated at £200,000 to £300,000, while On the Waves of Love carries an estimate of £70,000 to £100,000. Together the three estimates trace a clear hierarchy within the group, from the large, richly coloured shore scene down to the smaller, more intimate sheet.

The emphasis on prints offers a different view of Munch from the one fixed by his most famous painting. The pastel version of The Scream fetched $119.9 million at Sotheby's in New York in 2012, a figure in a different category from the works on offer here. On 27 October, attention will instead be on whether these impressions, with their varied techniques and colouring, meet or pass their estimates, and on what they reveal about a market that values Munch's graphic work on its own terms.