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Munch's The Scream sets NYC auction record with $119,9 million
Estimates for the sale varied from $80 million to $200 million, and ended up selling for $119,922,500 million
Picasso's "Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust," which sold for $106.5 million at auction was surpassed by Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" at the NYC auction held on Wednesday, May 2nd. The famous work of the Norwegian painter, the only privately owned was sold for a record price of $119,9 million. "The Scream" is part of a series The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of love, fear, death, melancholia, and anxiety.
Estimates for the sale varied from $80 million to $200 million, and ended up selling for $119,922,500 million. Munch's inscription on the painting reads as follow:
"I was walking along a path with two friends - the sun was setting - suddenly the sky turned blood red - I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence - there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city.
My friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety - and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature."
However, the most expensive work of art ever sold ever, is Cezanne's "The Card Players," which went in a private sale to the country of Qatar for $250 million.
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