Last year saw not one but two record-breaking art sales—Cindy Sherman's Untitled #96 ($3.89 million) and Andreas Gursky's Rhein II ($4.3 million). Both paltry sums given the amount that Sotheby's just sold Edvard Munch's masterpiece for. More »
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Today, the auction house Sotheby's announced that it would be sellin Edvard Munch's 1895 masterpiece, The Scream, as part of its Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York on May 2. Sotheby's said in a statement, "The iconi... Read Post
(Reuters) - U.S. billionaire Leon Black is the mystery buyer who paid a record $120 million for Edvard Munch's masterpiece "The Scream" at Sotheby's in May, the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction, the Wall Street Journa... Read Post