‘The Scream’ Fetches Record $119.9 Million in New York Auction
By KELLY CROW, Source: The Wall Street Journal Let the art market roar. Norwegian painter Edvard Munch became the most expensive artist at auction Wednesday when his 1895 pastel of a terrified man clutching his cheeks along an Oslo fjord, “The Scream,” sold for $119.9 million at Sotheby’s—the most ever