How much is The Scream picture worth?

$119.9 million
It’s ‘The Scream’, painted by Edvard Munch, and it sold at a Sotheby’s auction last night in New York for $119.9 million, establishing it as the most valuable piece of art ever sold at auction, Margo Adler tells NPR’s Newscast.

Is The Scream a print?

Munch made about thirty impressions of this print, some on colored paper or hand colored in watercolor, and some without the title and text. Because an image inked on a lithography stone is flipped in the printing process, lithographs based on preexisting images generally reverse the original.

What is the method of printing on The Scream?

Hand-pulled silkscreen print using high quality pigment inks on acid free, mould-made fine art paper. This printing method is an art studio process requiring separate screens for each colour and produces a rich, paint-like result.

Why is The Scream painting so valuable?

Munch created four versions of The Scream, three of which are held in museums, but the painting sold last Wednesday night is thought to be the most valuable because its frame features a poem hand-written by Munch himself.

Who currently owns The Scream painting?

financier Leon Black
The buyer has been revealed to be New York financier Leon Black. The owner of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” has been revealed. Leon Black, the New York financier and head of the investment firm Apollo Global Management, is reported to be the person who paid $119.9 million for the highly coveted masterpiece.

What type of painting is The Scream?

Proto-Expressionism
The Scream is the popular name given to a composition created by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1893….

The Scream
Type	Oil, tempera, pastel and crayon on cardboard
Movement	Proto-Expressionism
Dimensions	91 cm × 73.5 cm (36 in × 28.9 in)
Location	National Gallery and Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway

What type of printmaking did Edvard Munch use?

lithographic stones
He used lithographic stones (printed in black and red) as well as woodblocks (inked in blue, yellow and green). ‘He was an incredibly innovative printmaker,’ says Bartrum. ‘One really can’t talk of Munch’s greatness without considering the prints alongside the paintings.

What materials were used in The Scream?

Munch used a mixture of media in his works of art. The two versions of The Scream studied here were found to include oil paints and oil paints thickened with beeswax and also oil crayons containing beeswax and Japan wax, as well as casein pastels, a paraffin wax crayon and at least one gum-bound paint.

What does The Scream painting represent?

The Scream is the popular name given to a composition created by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1893. The agonized face in the painting has become one of the most iconic images of art, seen as symbolizing the anxiety of the human condition.

How much did the pastel of The Scream sell for?

It took 12 nail-biting minutes and five eager bidders for Edvard Munch’s famed 1895 pastel of “The Scream” to sell for $119.9 million, becoming the world’s most expensive work of art ever to sell at auction.

How many copies of The Scream are there?

four versions
There are not one, but four versions of The Scream, painted by the Norwegian artist over the 17 year period from 1893 until 1910, as well as fewer than 50 lithograph prints made of it in 1895. Each version of The Scream is unique.

Is The Scream realistic or abstract?

In the Starry Night by Van Gogh and The Scream by Edvard Munch artworks, the artists perfectly blended both abstraction with realism, which called “semi abstraction”.