The last version of Edvard Munch's masterpiece 'The Scream' still in public hands, will be sold this spring in New York, Sotheby's auction house have announced.
Sotheby's estimates that the work, which has become a modern icon of human anxiety, will sell for $80 million (£50.6 million) or more.
The painting is one of four versions created by the Norwegian artist and the only one in private hands.
The 1895 drawing of a man holding his head and screaming under a streaked, blood-red sky is being sold by Norwegian businessman Petter Olsen, whose father was a friend and patron of Munch's.
'I have lived with this work all my life, and its power and energy have only increased with time,' Olsen said.
My question now is : Who will buy such?
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