Opinion

Edvard Munch’s The Scream Is a New Yorker

by Hrag Vartanian July 11, 2012July 13, 2012

Oh, Kelly Crow of WSJ, you got yourself a juicy art market scoop. We now know who owns Edvard Munch’s 1895 pastel version “The Scream” that fetched $119.9m at auction earlier this year — New York financier Leon Black:

Now that the buyer has been identified, the new parlor game surrounding the iconic artwork will be guessing where it will end up. Mr. Black’s long-term intentions for his Munch remain unclear. He sits on the boards of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, setting up a potential tug of war between two of the country’s most powerful art institutions. Neither owns a “Scream,” aside from lithograph-print versions of it.

I love this part:

A spokesman for Mr. Black, 60 years old, declined to comment.

Hrag Vartanian

Hrag Vartanian is editor-in-chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic. More by Hrag Vartanian

One reply on “Edvard Munch’s The Scream Is a New Yorker”

justusbruns says:

July 11, 2012 at 7:19 pm

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