Saturday, May 5, 2012

The Scream breaks the $100 million mark


Expected to fetch in excess of $80 million, Edvard Munch's The Scream went under the hammer for a record $119,922,500 at Sotheby's, becoming the most expensive art work ever sold at auction and the first to break the $100 million mark.
Image: Edvard Munch's The Scream, 1985 pastel on board