Edvard Munch’s iconic The Scream is among the most celebrated and recognized images in art history. The Scream is the popular name given to each of four versions of a composition, created as both paintings and pastels, by the Expressionist Norwegian artist Edvard Munch between 1893 and 1910.

The landscape in the background is the Oslofjord, viewed from Ekeberg, Oslo, Norway.

The fourth version (pastel, 1895) was sold for $119,922,600 at Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern art auction on 2 May 2012 to financier Leon Black, the highest nominal price paid for a painting at auction.[4]  The painting is on display in the Museum of Modern Art in New York for six months from October 2012 to March 2013. (The Card Players by Paul Cézanne was sold privately in 2011 for between $250 and 300 million.[5])

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