"...I was almost mad…You know my picture 'The Scream'...," Munch wrote of his seminal work, a stirring representation of modern man's anxiety.

"The Scream" is one of the world's most widely recognized works of art, integral to the artist's "Frieze of Life" series. It's not part of a new Munch exhibition at the Pinacotheque de Paris.

The show includes 110 works, 45 of them paintings. Key works, including "The Scream," are missing. This fact is played down. The title of the exhibition is "Edward Munch or the anti-Scream."

Even so, groupings of the Norwegian Symbolist painter's thematic imagery---life, love, fear, death, and melancholia loom large---are bound to pack a powerful punch.