Edvard Munch died in 1944 & his estate passed to the city of Oslo. One version of The Scream went to the National Museum of Norway. Another went to the Munch Museum.
A 1895 pastel version ended up in private hands when it sold at auction for nearly US$120 million in 2012.
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“I sensed a scream pass through nature.”
In 1893, Edvard Munch walked into a sunset and had a full-on existential meltdown. A blood-red sky. A collapsing body.
It was the birth of "The Scream" the most famous anxiety attack in art history. Let’s break it down...
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Munch couldn’t leave the moment of "The Scream" alone.
He made 4 versions and even more paintings, pastels, prints. One sold for $119 million.
The theme from "The Scream" kept scratching at Munch. It shows up in his other works too; Anxiety, Despair, Melancholy. Haunted like he was.
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