{"id":3306,"date":"2012-02-23T09:07:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T16:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/02\/the-scream-on-the-block\/"},"modified":"2012-02-28T09:13:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T16:13:43","slug":"the-scream-on-the-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/23\/the-scream-on-the-block\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scream On The Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/21\/the-scream-heads-for-the-auction-block\/\" target=\"_blank\">from the NYT&#8217;s Arts Beat<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>\u2018The Scream\u2019 Heads for the Auction Block<\/h1>\n<p><em>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/author\/carol-vogel\/\" target=\"_blank\">CAROL VOGEL<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/screamnyt1.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>It has adorned everything from mugs and t-shirts to key chains, anti-George Bush campaign buttons, inflatable dolls and iPad covers. Now a version of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/m\/edvard_munch\/index.html?scp=1&amp;sq=munch%20%22the%20scream%22&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\">Edvard Munch<\/a>\u2019s celebrated painting \u201cThe Scream\u2019\u2019 will be up for sale at Sotheby\u2019s in New York on May 2nd, the auction house announced on Tuesday morning. Officials there estimate it could bring more than $80 million.<\/p>\n<p>Munch made four versions of the composition, which has become the embodiment of angst and existential dread. Three are in Norwegian museums and this one, pastel on board, from 1895, is the only \u201cScream\u201d still in private hands. It is being sold by Petter Olsen, a Norwegian businessman and shipping heir whose father, Thomas, was a friend, neighbor and patron of the artist.<\/p>\n<p>Besides being one of the most recognizable images in art history, \u201cThe Scream\u2019\u2019 is also one of the most often stolen. Versions of it have been taken twice, first in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1994\/02\/13\/world\/munch-s-the-scream-stolen-from-exhibit.html?scp=4&amp;sq=edvard%20munch%20scream%20stolen&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\">1994<\/a>, when two thieves entered the National Gallery of Norway and fled with an 1893 \u201cScream\u201d (it was recovered unharmed later that year), and then in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/08\/23\/international\/europe\/23scream.html?scp=3&amp;sq=edvard%20munch%20scream%20stolen&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\">2004<\/a>, when masked gunmen stole the 1910 version as well as Munch\u2019s \u201cMadonna\u201d from the Munch Museum, also in Oslo (both works were recovered two years later).<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/21\/the-scream-heads-for-the-auction-block\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at the New York Times<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the NYT&#8217;s Arts Beat \u2018The Scream\u2019 Heads for the Auction Block By\u00a0CAROL VOGEL It has adorned everything from mugs and t-shirts to key chains, anti-George Bush campaign buttons, inflatable dolls and iPad covers. Now a version of\u00a0Edvard Munch\u2019s celebrated painting \u201cThe Scream\u2019\u2019 will be up for sale at Sotheby\u2019s in New York on May [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}