{"id":3376,"date":"2012-05-02T20:11:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T03:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/05\/munch-cries-kiss-my-ass-o-picasso-1199mm-for-the-scream\/"},"modified":"2012-05-03T17:05:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T00:05:36","slug":"munch-cries-kiss-my-ass-o-picasso-1199mm-for-the-scream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/02\/munch-cries-kiss-my-ass-o-picasso-1199mm-for-the-scream\/","title":{"rendered":"Munch Cries Kiss My Ass-o, Picasso &#8211; $119.9MM for The Scream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/arts\/culture\/la-et-cm-edvard-munch-the-scream-at-sothebys-20120502,0,3775078.story\" target=\"_blank\">from The LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Edvard Munch&#8217;s &#8216;The Scream&#8217; goes for $119.9 million at Sotheby&#8217;s<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-4fa1a2af\/turbine\/la-et-cm-edvard-munch-the-scream-at-sothebys-2-001\/600\" alt=\"Sotheby's sells Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' for $119.9 million on Wednesday, May 2, 2012\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Sometimes beauty is trumped by the beast. After bullish expectations and an aggressive marketing campaign for an image considered the quintessential expression of modern horror, Sotheby&#8217;s New York sold Edvard Munch&#8217;s 1895 \u201cThe Scream\u201d for $119.9 million on Wednesday night, setting a record for the most expensive artwork sold at auction.<\/p>\n<p>The top spot was previously held by Picasso&#8217;s 1932 \u201cNude, Green, Leave and Bust\u201d &#8212; a painting of his much-younger lover Marie-Therese Walter that sold at Christie\u2019s in 2010 for $106.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/arts\/culture\/la-et-cm-edvard-munch-the-scream-at-sothebys-20120502,0,3775078.story\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The LA Times<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The LA Times Edvard Munch&#8217;s &#8216;The Scream&#8217; goes for $119.9 million at Sotheby&#8217;s NEW YORK &#8212; Sometimes beauty is trumped by the beast. After bullish expectations and an aggressive marketing campaign for an image considered the quintessential expression of modern horror, Sotheby&#8217;s New York sold Edvard Munch&#8217;s 1895 \u201cThe Scream\u201d for $119.9 million on [&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-3376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376","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=3376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}