Auction History Made at Sotheby's Edvard Munch's The Scream Sells for $119.9 Million / £73.9 Million / €91 Million ** New World Record for Any Work of Art at Auction **
Sotheby’s New York
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
Auction 2 May 2012
Property from the Olsen Collection
Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
The Scream
Signed E. Munch and dated 1895 (lower left)
Pastel on board in the artist’s original frame
Executed in 1895
79 cm by 59 cm
Sold for $119,922,500
RECORD FOR ANY WORK OF ART AT AUCTION
In last night's electric salesroom at Sotheby's New York, Edvard Munch's iconic masterpiece The Screamachieved $119,922,500 / £73,921,284 / €91,033,826 - a new world record for any work at auction. A group of seven bidders jumped into the competition early, but it was a prolonged battle between two highly determined phone bidders that carried the final selling price to its historic level, after more than 12 minutes.