£1,200 - £1,800
Rare Limited Edition Edvard Munch "The Scream"
8814 - This limited edition "The Scream" by Edvard Munch was published as an edition of only 85 Worldwide making a very rare edition. Supplied with the certificate of authenticity signed by the Master Printer. In special bespoke frame and mounted. Note: supplied (free of charge) with replacement valuation certificate for £2000. The Scream is the popular name given to each of four versions of a composition, created as both paintings and pastels, by the Expressionist artist Edvard Munch between 1893 and 1910. Der Schrei der Natur (The Scream of Nature) is the title Munch gave to these works, all of which show a figure with an agonized expression against a landscape with a tumultuous orange sky. This was the fourth version which was done in pastel and completed in 1895. In 2012 it was sold for $119,922,600 at Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern art auction to financier Leon Black. In his diary in an entry headed, Nice 22 January 1892, Munch described his inspiration for the image: One evening I was walking along a path, the city was on one side and the fjord below. I felt tired and ill. I stopped and looked out over the fjord the sun was setting, and the clouds turning blood red. I sensed a scream passing through nature; it seemed to me that I heard the scream. I painted this picture, painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked. This became The Scream. H: 104cm W: 88cm D: 5cm
