"The Scream" is the popular name given to each of four versions of a composition, created as both paintings and pastels, by the Expressionist artist Edvard Munch between 1893 and 1910.
Arthur Lubow has described The Scream as "an icon of modern art, a Mona Lisa for our time."

The National Gallery, Oslo, holds one of two painted versions (1893, shown here). The Munch Museum holds the other painted version (1910) and a pastel version from 1893. The fourth version (pastel, 1895) was sold for $119,922,600 at Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Art auction on 2 May 2012.

"The Scream" has been the target of several high-profile art thefts. In 1994, the version in the National Gallery was stolen. It was recovered several months later. In 2004, both "The Scream" and "Madonna" were stolen from the Munch Museum, and were both recovered two years later.

Oil, temper, and pastel on cardboard, 1893.
Nationalgalleriet, Oslo.
 
Uploaded on 31 August 2015 into category: Painting

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