[SuziQ]

I read an article in last Friday's "Wall Street Journal" about this auction. There are actually 5 iterations of "The Scream", one of which is a sketch, but IIRC, the article stated that this was the only one NOT in a museum already.

One potential buyer was quoted as saying that he'd be content with selling all of his other artwork, just to be able to sit in a room and look at this painting for hours on end. Don't know why this painting evokes such sentiments, but it's an interesting piece of artwork.

[Verginius Rufus]

One version was stolen from a museum in Norway several years ago--has it been retrieved?

Edvard Munch was a visionary. The painting represents his realization that someday Barack Obama would be elected President of the United States.