Munch Painting Sells for $20m at Auction
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- 24 Mar 2023
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An original Edvard Munch painting with a storied past fetched an eye-watering sum at the Sotheby's auction house in London. Read on for the fascinating story.
It's not every day a painting by a world-famous artist goes up for sale. But that's exactly what happened as the eyes of the art world fell on Sotheby's in London on 1 March.
A section of ‘Dance on the beach' by Edvard Munch. Photo: Sotheby's.
The four-metre-wide painting Dans på stranden (Dance on the Beach) by legendary Norwegian artist Edvard Munch sold for a total of GBP £16,940,300. That's around USD $20.3 million or NOK 210 million, including costs.
While that didn't match the heights of one of the versions of The Scream that stunned the art world with its $119 million sale price in 2012, it's still a very notable sale. Read More…
