Jump directly to the content
WHAT A SCREAM

Artist Tracey Emin says she was spooked by ghost of scream painter Edvard Munch

ARTIST Tracey Emin says she let out a scream when she was spooked by the ghost of Edvard Munch.

Tracey, 57, revealed she had a brush with a spectre while visiting the Munch Museum in the Norwegian capital Oslo.

Tracey Emin says she let out a scream when she was spooked by the ghost of Edvard Munch
4
Tracey Emin says she let out a scream when she was spooked by the ghost of Edvard MunchCredit: Getty - Contributor
Edvard Munch's The Scream
4
Edvard Munch's The ScreamCredit: Handout

She claimed The Scream painter’s spirit moved a hat and slammed a heavy, steel door.

Tracey, who revealed last month that she is in remission after a bladder cancer op, told the Talk Art podcast: ‘‘We were at the Munch Museum, in the archive. And at the Munch Museum, all the archive is underground, sort of in a hill.

‘‘It’s like going to the Bank of England — it’s all in vaults. You have like submarine doors.

‘‘We were looking in the Munch archive, at Munch’s furniture and Munch’s hats and his paints and clothes and everything. We took the top of this box off, looked down and there was a hat in it and it moved.

Edvard Munch, who died in 1944
4
Edvard Munch, who died in 1944Credit: SWNS:South West News Service
The artist has had a number of organs removed in a fight for life against cancer
4
The artist has had a number of organs removed in a fight for life against cancerCredit: Getty - Contributor

“We yelped. And then — this is really brilliant — the door closed.

‘‘Ordinarily a door could close but not that door.

“It’s 6in thick. It can’t close on its own. It doesn’t move like that.

Artist Tracey Emin discusses her Turner Prize nominated installation 'My Bed'

GOT a story? RING The Sun on 0207 782 4104 or WHATSAPP on 07423720250 or EMAIL [email protected]

Topics