Edvard Munch painting fetches $54M at Sotheby’s sale in NYC
NEW YORK — A work by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch fetched over $54 million at Sotheby’s auction of impressionist and modern art on Monday.
“Girls on the Bridge,” a seminal work from 1902, depicts a cluster of girls huddled on a bridge in a country village. It sold in 1996 for $7.7 million and again in 2008 for $30.8 million, each time setting a record for the artist.
In 2012, Munch’s work “The Scream,” one of the most iconic images in art history, sold for $119.9 million at Sotheby’s. It became the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction, a record that has been broken four times since.
Pablo Picasso’s “Women of Algiers (Version O)” now holds that distinction. It sold last year for $179.4 million.