Four versions of The Scream exist.
One sold on Wednesday for $120 million, two others were stolen in 2004. Describing his haunting vision, Munch wrote this poem,
“I was walking along the road with two Friends / the Sun was setting – The Sky turned a bloody red / And I felt a whiff of Melancholy – I stood / Still, deathly tired – over the blue-black / Fjord and City hung Blood and Tongues of Fire / My Friends walked on – I remained behind / – shivering with Anxiety – I felt the great Scream in Nature – EM.”
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There is also a theory that the red sky of Munch's painting was inspired by the echoes of the Krakatoa eruption! I've been fortunate enough to see two of the existing Screams.
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