The pencil inscription is on the first painted version of the composition, there are also two pastel versions, one of which sold for over $110 million dollars in 2012. There is a second painted version, done in 1910 as well as several prints which were made by Munch himself from a lithograph stone.
This version, with the pencil writing, was stolen in 1994 at the opening of the Olympics, but recovered a few months later. The 1910 painting was stolen in 2004 but eventually recovered in 2006.
A pictographic representation of the screaming face with hands on cheeks was considered by the US department of energy for long-term radioactive waste storage facilities, where the waste is expected to remain dangerous far longer than English will remain in use, and other forms of communication are considered necessary to warn people in the future away from the area.
Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
|