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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'The Scream' fetches record $119.9M at NYC auction
ULA ILNYTZKY, Associated Press
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
One of the art world's most recognizable images Edvard Munch's "The Scream" sold for a record $119,922,500 at auction in New York City.
The 1895 artwork a modern symbol of human anxiety was sold at Sotheby's Wednesday evening. The price includes the buyer's premium.
The image of a man holding his head and screaming under a streaked, blood-red sky is one of four versions by the Norwegian expressionist painter. The auctioned piece at Sotheby's is the only one left in private hands.
The previous record for an artwork sold at auction was $106.5 million for Picasso's "Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust," sold by Christie's in 2010.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/05/01/national/a234824D18.DTL
That's a lot of money
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Well, what else is new?
banned from Kos
(4,017 posts)sorry Inflationista's - just a joke!
MadHound
(34,179 posts)It is almost a guarantee that you, I, and the overwhelming rest of the world will never see that painting again. It will get stuck in some collection, open only to private viewing.
Art should be for all.
Lars77
(3,032 posts)They are not exactly alike i think.
No doubt this will end up in the mansion of:
a) A Russian criminal oligarch
b) An arab sheik
c) A chinese criminal oligarch
JHB
(37,160 posts)I don't care how good a painting it is. Whoever paid that has too much money lying around.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)underpants
(182,802 posts)cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)The real one (the one we think of as THE scream) may well be worth that.
edbermac
(15,939 posts)Just look at all those happy little trees; now that's ART!!