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Subjects : Portrait
Keywords : Expressionism, cry, despair, illness, mystery
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The Scream

The Scream (Norwegian: Skrik) is an Expressionist work by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, of which there are five versions (two paintings, a pastel, a pencil drawing and a lithograph) produced between 1893 and 1917. Symbolising modern man caught up in a crisis of existential anguish, it is considered to be the artist's most important work. The landscape in the background is the Oslo fjord, as seen from Ekeberg. One of the five versions was sold by Sotheby's in New York for $120 million. On 2 May 2012, it set a new record for the sale of a painting at auction. It is now the fifth most expensive work sold at auction. The painting is part of a cycle called "The Frieze of Life", which comprises around twenty paintings and was left unfinished. Munch executed five versions of the painting, the most famous of which are a tempera on cardboard in the Munch Museum in Oslo (83.52 cm high by 66 cm wide), and an oil, tempera and pastel painting in the National Gallery in Oslo (91 cm high by 73.5 cm wide). A third version also belongs to the Munch Museum. A fourth belonged to Norwegian billionaire Petter Olsen, before being sold at auction to an anonymous buyer on 2 May 2012 for the record sum of $119.92 million. It thus surpasses Picasso's Nude with Sculptor's Tray, which sold for 106.5 million. The fifth version is a lithograph produced in Berlin in 1895. On 22 January 1892, Munch wrote in his diary: According to Donald Olson, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Texas, this [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the post-impressionism style.

 

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