The Shout Out - The Nearly Expensive Artwork Always Sold At Auction

There are iv versions of The Scream past times Edward Munch (1863-1944). The most colourful ane - a run done inwards pastel - sold at Sotheby's Auction House inwards New York lastly calendar week for the largest amount ever taken for ane paradigm at auction.

The Scream beingness sold at auction at Sotheby's inwards New York for $107 million
(excluding buyer's premium)
Photo courtesy of Sotheby's

I wonder how many of us would ever stimulate got idea a run inwards pastel would fix a pregnant auction record?

However it's an iconic painting.

Few images stimulate got burnt themselves on our collective retina equally the Scream has
Simon Shaw, Head of Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art, New York

The iv versions of The Scream are:

• The Scream (1893) Tempera together with crayon on cardboard, 91 x 73.5 cm) - one of ii painted versions which can live seen at The National Gallery, Oslo
• The Scream (1910?) Tempera on board. 83.5 x 66 cm.  This second painted version together with a pastel version are held by The Munch Museum in Oslo
• the quaternary together with most colourful version (Pastel, 1895), owned past times Petter Olsen, for $119,922,500 at Sotheby's Impressionist together with Modern fine art auction on 2 May 2012 to a individual buyer - for the highest ever hammer bid toll paid for an artwork at auction.  It took 12 minutes together with an initial grouping of 8 bidders to force the slice upward to its eventual hammer bid.

The introduce version of The Scream, which dates from 1895, is one of iv versions of the composition together with the alone version however inwards individual hands. The run is owned by Norwegian human of affairs Petter Olsen, whose manlike soul rear Thomas was a friend, vecino together with patron of Munch.
Sotheby's

The Scream (1895) past times Edward Munch
Pastel
Sold at auction past times Sotheby's New York for $107 million
($119,922,500 including buyer's premium)
Photo courtesy of Sotheby's

Like many others I had misunderstood the sense which gave ascent to the paradigm equally a visual human face - which is explained inwards inscription below the pastel (see paradigm above) together with the videos below.

“I was walking along the route amongst ii Friends /
the Lord's Day was setting – The Sky turned a bloody cerise / And I felt a whiff of Melancholy – I stood / Still, deathly tired – over the blue-black / Fjord together with City hung Blood together with Tongues of Fire / My Friends walked on – I remained behind / – shivering amongst Anxiety – I felt the peachy Scream inwards Nature – EM”
The artist’s hand-painted inscription on the frame of the introduce work.

These are three videos past times Sotheby's well-nigh the The Scream together with the pastel run of fine art which sold at Sotheby's on 2nd May 2012:

• the commence provides an introduction to The Scream inwards Munch's ain words

• the 2nd is an introduction to together with commentary on The Scream by Simon Shaw, Senior Vice President together with Head of Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art division inwards New York
   and Adam Gopnik, author, critic together with a staff author amongst 'The New Yorker'

• The 3rd includes film of the auction where it sold for $119, 922,500 (excluding buyer premium - sale toll $107 million).  It was the commence fourth dimension that a hammer bid has exceeded $100 ane one one thousand thousand and, to date, is the highest ever toll paid at auction for a painting.

and finally...... 

“The Scream “ for me shows the horrifying minute when human realizes his deportment on on nature together with the irreversible changes that he has initiated, making the planet increasingly uninhabitable. The paradigm of “The Scream” could brand to a greater extent than of us fathom the magnitude of the consequences of our continuing emissions of greenhouse gases. This volition inevitably Pb to the triggering of uncontrollable feedback mechanisms that prevarication latent inwards the physics of nature. 
Petter Olsen (owner of the paradigm prior to auction together with boy of Thomas Olson - a friend, vecino together with patron of Munch)

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