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# The Scream Goes on View at MoMA on Oct 24
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/the-screen-edvard-munch-moma/
- Published: 2012-09-18T22:28:47.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:36:17.000Z
- Description: Edvard Munch’s iconic "The Scream" (1895), among the most celebrated and recognized images in art history, will go on view at The Museum of Modern Art for a period of six months beginning October 24.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: News, Edvard Munch, MoMA, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

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Edvard Munch, “The Scream” (1895), pastel on board (© 2012 The Munch Museum/The Munch-Ellingsen Group/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York) (click to enlarge)

Today, MoMA announced the following and a collective smile was found on the faces of art lovers across New York:

> Edvard Munch’s iconic “The Scream” (1895), among the most celebrated and recognized images in art history, will go on view at The Museum of Modern Art for a period of six months beginning October 24.  
>  
> Of the four versions of “The Scream” made by Munch between 1893 and 1910, this pastel-on-board from 1895 is the only one remaining in private hands. The three other versions are in the collections of museums in Norway. “The Scream” is being lent by a private collector, and will be on view at MoMA through April 29, 2013.

For those who may not remember, this is the [painting that sold for $119.9m at auction earlier this year](https://hyperallergic.com/edvard-munchs-the-scream-is-a-new-yorker/) and is owned, according to *WSJ*, by New York financier Leon Black.