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2012 The Munch Museum\/The Munch-Ellingsen Group\/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY<\/p><\/div>\n

Get your bidder numbers and paddles ready because it’s happening again – an extremely popular original work of art will be up for sale at Sotheby\u2019s<\/a> in New York on May 2nd. Apparently, this 1895 version of Edvard Munch<\/a>\u2019s celebrated painting \u201cThe Scream”, which has been merchandised up the wazoo on mouse pads, hats, t-shirts, tote bags, inflatable dolls, and plush toys,\u00a0is expected to sell for more than $80 million.<\/p>\n

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Scream Plush Doll by Unemployed Philosophers Guild on Amazon.com<\/p><\/div>\n

According to Arts Beat<\/a>\u00a0at the\u00a0New York Times<\/a>, “Munch made four versions of the composition, which has become the embodiment of angst and existential dread. Three are in Norwegian museums and this one, pastel on board, from 1895, is the only \u201cScream\u201d still in private hands. It is being sold by Petter Olsen, a Norwegian businessman and shipping heir whose father, Thomas, was a friend, neighbor and patron of the artist.”<\/p>\n

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Homer, The Scream Covers & Citations https:\/\/search.it.online.fr\/<\/p><\/div>\n

Arts Beat continues, “Besides being one of the most recognizable images in art history, \u201cThe Scream\u2019\u2019 is also one of the most often stolen. Versions of it have been taken twice, first in 1994, when two thieves entered the National Gallery of Norway and fled with an 1893 \u201cScream\u201d (it was recovered unharmed later that year), and then in 2004, when masked gunmen stole the 1910 version as well as Munch\u2019s \u201cMadonna\u201d<\/a> from the Munch Museum, also in Oslo (both works were recovered two years later).”<\/p>\n

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Ghostface from the Scream movie series created by Wes Craven. Based on The Scream painting by Edvard Munch, the mask was originally created by Fun World employee as a Halloween costume prior to being discovered by Wes Craven for the Scream film.<\/p><\/div>\n

Simon Shaw, who heads Sotheby\u2019s Impressionist and modern art department in New York, said in an interview with Arts Beat, \u201cThe Scream is unique. Everybody knows it, but paradoxically few people have ever really seen it in person. When you stand in front of the painting it\u2019s really quite scary. It has the power to shock.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

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"The Scream" inflatable doll<\/p><\/div>\n

Indeed, that kind of price tag often shocks me. How about you? More importantly, tell us the truth \u2013 have you ever purchased a t-shirt, poster, or coffee mug, etc., depicting Munch’s “The Scream”?<\/p>\n

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