Video: An exhibition of one painting, the most expensive in the world, opens in New York
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The Museum of Modern Art in New York opens a one-painting exhibition on October 24. Visitors will be shown the famous painting by the Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch "The Scream".
The Scream painting is the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction: in May 2012, the painting was sold at Sotheby's for a record $ 119 million. The museum is going to strengthen security measures. This is due to the fact that the artist's works have recently been encroached on by the kidnappers quite often. The loudest theft took place on August 22, 2004, when one of the versions of this painting was stolen from a museum in Oslo.
Munch completed his painting The Scream in 1895 and is one of the most significant works of art in the modernist era. The canvas depicts the figure of a man who squeezes his head with his hands. His face is contorted with horror, and his mouth is open in a shrill cry. Behind the man's back is a blood-red sunset, and behind him are two people who calmly walk away. On the frame of the picture there is an author's inscription: "My friends are gone, I stayed, trembling with anxiety and feeling the great Cry of Nature." Critics claim that the painting expresses a sense of anxiety and existential fear that plague modern man.
Of the four versions of The Scream, which were created by Munch from 1893 to 1910, only one is in a private collection. This is how the painting is now being exhibited in New York.
The name of the collector who purchased and exhibited "The Scream" is not disclosed today. Experts do not exclude that it could be Leon Black, a financier and collector from New York. The previous owner of the painting was the Norwegian millionaire Petter Olsen, who was a neighbor and friend of Edvard Munch.
You can see the painting by Edvard Munch "The Scream" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York until April 29, 2013.
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