Sir – The latest Art via Cinema show, the 150: Munch exhibition, showing at the Phoenix on June 27, will be eagerly awaited by Munch admirers because it draws from Oslo’s two major sources of the artist’s work, the National Gallery and the Munch Museum.

The latter celebrates its 50th anniversary this year and was built to house the maverick Munch’s surprise bequest to the city of Oslo, on his death in 1944, of — wait for it — 1,100 paintings, 4,500 watercolours and drawings of more than 1,800 prints.

He could hardly have done more had they approved of him! I think we can expect many iconic canvasses to fill the large screen — but I also hope to enter the enclosed backyard at Ekely, where Munch subjected paintings he was not happy with to his ‘horse-cure’, leaving them exposed to snow and rain. He wanted to see if this might not improve them! As Michael Caine might say, there are not too many art schools who teach that, y’know!’

Patrick Snaith, Oxford