Edvard Munch's "The Scream" Sells for $120 Million
Edvard Munch The Scream 23.5" x 32" pastel on board 1895 This pastel, one of four versions of Edvard Munch's The Scream, sold tonight at Sotheby's for a new world record for any work of art at auction - $119.9 million. In blood red paint on the front of the original frame that holds this pastel version of The Scream , Munch wrote the words to his poem that inspired the image: I was walking along the road with two friends. The Sun was setting — The Sky turned a bloody red And I felt a whiff of Melancholy — I stood Still, deathly tired — over the blue-black Fjord and City hung Blood and Tongues of Fire My Friends walked on — I remained behind — shivering with Anxiety. I felt the great Scream in Nature. Carol Vogel in the New York Times writes: "Munch made four versions of The Scream , three of which are now in Norwegian museums; the one that sold on Wednesday, a pastel on board from 1895, was the only one still in private hands. It was sol...