There are several versions of The Scream by Edvard Munch and I've seen one in the Getty Museum - that is the one on PCH before everything moved out to the new place high on the bluff north of Santa Monica. It is a very disturbing work and was painted in 1893. It is three feet by two and a half. It has been suggested that the red color of the sky was an actual phenomenon due to the eruption of the volcano in Krakatoa and from which the emissions could be seen in northern Europe.
I always thought that the person in the picture was the one screaming, but it seems more likely that he is holding his ears against the "primal scream" that he hears from nature. What do you think?
The painting in the Munch Museum in Oslo has been valued at $80 million. One was sold recently in New York for $130 Million.
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