Video: Edvard Munch's paintings: robbery as the best form of PR
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Today, paintings by Edvard Munch, appearing at various auctions, are becoming one of the hottest lots. And all thanks to the theft of two paintings by this artist - "Madonna" and "Scream" from the Munch Museum in Oslo in 2004.
Edvard Munch is an artist who is rightfully considered Norway's national pride. His legacy is over 1,000 oil paintings, nearly 4,500 watercolors and drawings, and over 15,000 prints.
The anthology of auction sales of paintings by Edvard Munch makes one agree that crime can be profitable. According to experts from Norwegian auction houses, after the theft of two of his paintings from the museum, Edvard Munch's canvases just soared in value. For example, the painting "Girls on the Bridge" (1902) by Edvard Munch in May 2010 was sold for $ 30.8 million, while at the auction in 1996 for the same canvas they paid incomparably less - only $ 7, 7 million.
A special period in the work of Munch was the 90s of the XX century. At this time, he is close to the "state of the naked soul." The pictures are filled with a depressive mood, and they bear the corresponding names "Fear", "Despair", "Melancholy", "Break", "Jealousy" …
The symbolism in Munch's work was especially vividly expressed in the cycle of works "The Frieze of Life". The artist himself said that this is a poem about love, about life and death on which he worked for more than 30 years.
The painting The Scream, which was stolen from the museum in 2004, is the apogee of a psychological generalization. In this canvas, Munch's painting reaches exceptional tension and is close to the metaphor of human loneliness and despair.
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