MUNCH’S THE SCREAM SETS THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR ANY WORK OF ART AT AUCTION

2 May 2012 – Auction history was made at Sotheby’s tonight when Edvard Munch’s iconic masterpiece The Scream sold for $119,922,500 / £73,921,284 / €91,033,826 in New York, marking a new world record for any work of art at auction*. A group of at least eight bidders jumped into the competition, but it was a prolonged battle between two highly determined phone bidders that carried the final selling price to its historic level, after more than 12 minutes...