Created by Norwegian expressionist artist Edvard Munch, The Scream is the name given to four versions of one of the world’s most famous artworks. On May 2, the only privately owned version of The Scream sold for a record price at an auction in New York City.
Read the following story from the Bangkok Post about this exciting sale.
In just 12 minutes at the Sotheby’s public auction in New York, heated competition between seven bidders took the price of The Scream to $119.9 million (3.7 billion baht), the highest ever for a work of art.