Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ to fetch $80 million at auction

It also said the version on offer at its impressionist and modern art evening
auction was the “most colourful and vibrant” of the four images
and the only one in which one of the figures in the background turns to look
at the cityscape.

The work also features a hand-painted inscription on its frame in which Munch
explains his motivation for image. It includes the lines “My Friends
walked on-I remained behind/shivering with Anxiety-I felt the great Scream
in Nature.”

Two other versions of The Scream have been the subject of high-profile art
thefts in recent years.

In 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery of Norway and fled with the
museum’s 1893 version of The Scream. A successful sting operation brought
the work back to the museum later that year, unharmed.

A decade later, masked
gunmen stole Munch’s 1910 version of The Scream
, as well as
his Madonna, from the Munch Museum, also in Oslo. Both works were recovered
two years later, and
went back on exhibition in 2008
.

Source: Reuters

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