May 3, 2012
Munch's "The Scream" for $ 120 million auctioned
The record price exceeds all expectations. For $ 119.9 million (91.3 million euros), the painting "The Scream" by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863 - 1944) has been auctioned in New York. This makes it the most expensive picture ever sold at an auction.
AUCTION RECORD
Munch's "The Scream" for $ 120 million auctioned
The picture of 1895 came at Sotheby's auction house under the hammer. The buyer is a stranger who had commanded by telephone.
The previous record was $ 106.5 million for the 2010 auctioned painting "Nude, green leaves and bust" by Pablo Picasso. Sales were previously only available in expensive private businesses, not from auctions.
The starting price of Munch's "The Scream" was 50 million dollars, experts had guessed at a retail price of approximately $ 80 million. Sotheby's had sent the painting around the world to present it to potential bidders.
The picture belonged to the Norwegian Industrial Petter Olsen, whose father was a neighbor and friend of the artist was. With the income to a new museum, an arts center and a hotel in Norway Hvitsten be built. Munch lived there, and Olsen's father.
Olsen said he had decided to sell because the moment has come, "the rest of the world to offer the chance to own this remarkable work and honor."
"The Scream" is a symbol of the anxieties of modern man. It is one of the most famous painting in the world.
The auctioned copy is one of four versions of expressionist painting and also the only one that was still privately owned.
The other versions are in the Norwegian state-owned.
The New York version is the only one whose frame was designed by the artist himself.
In addition to Picasso's "Nude, green leaves and bust" achieved so far only two other works by more than 100 million dollars: Picasso's "Boy with a Pipe" was released in 2004 for $ 104.1 million under the hammer, Alberto Giacometti's sculpture "Walking Man I" for 2010 $ 104.3 million.
As the most expensive paintings in the world is the way, "no. 5, 1948 "by Jackson Pollock. It should have been sold privately in 2006 for $ 140 million.
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