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Havenyou seen this painting? The figure looks terrified! Who would want tonsee this agonized face every day?
Havenyou seen this painting? The figure looks terrified! Who would want tonsee this agonized face every day?n
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nApparently,na lot of people. Recently one of the four versions of this iconicnpainting by Edvard Munch was sold at auction for almost 120 millionndollars, the highest price ever paid for a painting in annauction.
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nNot only that, the painting has been stolen two times in the lastnfew decades!
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nTodaynis the anniversary of the 1994 recovery of the painting after thenfirst highly-publicized theft.
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nMunchnwas a Norwegian artist, so the painting was displayed in Norway’sncapital, Oslo. On February 22, 1994, the Winter Olympics opened innLillehammer, Norway; The Scream hadnbeen moved down to the second floor of the National Gallery, anprominent display of Norwegian pride for all the internationalnvisitors who had come to see the Olympics. Amid the hubbub andnexcitement of the Olympics, that day in February, the painting wasnstolen. The thieves left a note that said, “Thanks for the poornsecurity.”
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nnOf course, there were onenor two reporters around (this was, after all, the Olympic Games!),nand the theft made big international news. The thieves tried tonransom the painting for one million dollars, but the gallery refusednto pay. Instead, Norwegian police worked with British police andnAmerica’s Getty Museum in creating a sting operation; on this date inn1994, three months after the theft, the police were able to find andnrecover the painting—totally unharmed—and catch the four thieves.nn
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| There are many parodies of The Scream in pop culture. |
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nAnothernversion of The Screamnwas stolen from a different Norwegian museum in 2004 and recoveredntwo years later. Right now, all four versions are safe and sound, with their owners.
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nKinderArtnhas a cool art project called “Things That Make Us Want to Scream.”nThere’s even a link to a theory about why the sky in the painting isnso red.
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| Many people have copied the painting with changes or additions, such as this version with headphones! |
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Mathematician Alexis Claude Clairaut’s birthday
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nBrahms’s birthday
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nAnniversary of the world premiere of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
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