" The Scream " auction at Sotheby ( NYC )# Arts - 艺术殿堂
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Sotheby's to Offer One of the Most Famous Masterpieces in the World
EDVARD MUNCH’S THE SCREAM TO LEAD THE IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART EVENING
SALE ON 2 MAY 2012 IN NEW YORK
Sotheby’s is honoured to announce that Edvard Munch’s masterpiece The
Scream will lead its Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York on
2 May 2012. The iconic work is one of the most instantly recognizable images
in both art history and popular culture, perhaps second only to the Mona
Lisa.
The present version of The Scream dates from 1895, and is one of four
versions of the composition, and the only version still in private hands. It
will be on view in London for the first time ever, with the exhibition at
Sotheby's opening on 13 April. In New York, and also for the first time ever
, it will be on exhibition at Sotheby's in advance of the sale beginning 27
April. The work is owned by Norwegian businessman Petter Olsen, whose father
Thomas was a friend, neighbour and patron of Munch.
As the defining image of the Expressionist movement, The Scream stands as a
pivotal work in the history of art. Munch created the image in the mid-1890s
as the central element of his celebrated Frieze of Life series. The
powerfully-rendered, blood-red sky presents the viewer with the reality of
Munch's experience at the moment he is gripped by anxiety in the hills above
Oslo. Like his Dutch contemporary Vincent van Gogh, Munch's desire was to
paint a new form of reality rooted in psychological experience, rather than
visual. It is this projection of Munch's mental state that was so
artistically innovative – a landscape of the mind, whose impact is still
felt in the art of today.
An icon of global visual culture, The Scream is instantly recognizable –
from Beijing to Moscow to New York. Since its creation at the turn of the
20th century, the provocative work has only gained relevance and impact over
time. The haunting composition stands as the visual embodiment of modern
anxiety and existential dread, referenced by everyone from Andy Warhol to
The Simpsons. Edvard Munch and The Scream have been the subject of countless
books, scholarly articles, films and museum exhibitions.
Munch created four versions of The Scream. The prime example, worked in 1893
from tempera and crayon on board, is in the National Gallery of Norway;
another pastel version from the same year is thought to be a preliminary
sketch for the work, and is owned by the Munch Museum in Oslo; the present
work from the Olsen Collection, created in 1895 from pastel on board, most
closely follows the prime composition in the National Gallery; and a later
version in tempera and oil on board, thought to be completed in 1910, is
also in the collection of the Munch Museum. In addition, Munch created a
lithograph of the image in 1895, which helped initiate the process of its
mass proliferation.
Of the four versions of the work, the present Scream is distinguished in
several remarkable ways: it is the most colorful and vibrant of the four;
the only version whose original frame was hand-painted by the artist to
include his poem detailing the work's inspiration; and the only version in
which one of the two figures in the background turns to look outward onto
the cityscape. This version has never before been on public view in either
the UK or US, except briefly in the National Gallery in Washington D.C.
decades ago.
The Scream has been in the collection of the Olsen family for over 70 years.
Thomas Olsen, scion of the great ship-owning dynasty, was a collector and
supporter of Munch from the late 1920s. Olsen and the artist were neighbors
at Hvitsten in Norway, where the young businessman's role grew from friend
to patron and eventually to protector of his works.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/sales-series/2012/impressionist-mode
EDVARD MUNCH’S THE SCREAM TO LEAD THE IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART EVENING
SALE ON 2 MAY 2012 IN NEW YORK
Sotheby’s is honoured to announce that Edvard Munch’s masterpiece The
Scream will lead its Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York on
2 May 2012. The iconic work is one of the most instantly recognizable images
in both art history and popular culture, perhaps second only to the Mona
Lisa.
The present version of The Scream dates from 1895, and is one of four
versions of the composition, and the only version still in private hands. It
will be on view in London for the first time ever, with the exhibition at
Sotheby's opening on 13 April. In New York, and also for the first time ever
, it will be on exhibition at Sotheby's in advance of the sale beginning 27
April. The work is owned by Norwegian businessman Petter Olsen, whose father
Thomas was a friend, neighbour and patron of Munch.
As the defining image of the Expressionist movement, The Scream stands as a
pivotal work in the history of art. Munch created the image in the mid-1890s
as the central element of his celebrated Frieze of Life series. The
powerfully-rendered, blood-red sky presents the viewer with the reality of
Munch's experience at the moment he is gripped by anxiety in the hills above
Oslo. Like his Dutch contemporary Vincent van Gogh, Munch's desire was to
paint a new form of reality rooted in psychological experience, rather than
visual. It is this projection of Munch's mental state that was so
artistically innovative – a landscape of the mind, whose impact is still
felt in the art of today.
An icon of global visual culture, The Scream is instantly recognizable –
from Beijing to Moscow to New York. Since its creation at the turn of the
20th century, the provocative work has only gained relevance and impact over
time. The haunting composition stands as the visual embodiment of modern
anxiety and existential dread, referenced by everyone from Andy Warhol to
The Simpsons. Edvard Munch and The Scream have been the subject of countless
books, scholarly articles, films and museum exhibitions.
Munch created four versions of The Scream. The prime example, worked in 1893
from tempera and crayon on board, is in the National Gallery of Norway;
another pastel version from the same year is thought to be a preliminary
sketch for the work, and is owned by the Munch Museum in Oslo; the present
work from the Olsen Collection, created in 1895 from pastel on board, most
closely follows the prime composition in the National Gallery; and a later
version in tempera and oil on board, thought to be completed in 1910, is
also in the collection of the Munch Museum. In addition, Munch created a
lithograph of the image in 1895, which helped initiate the process of its
mass proliferation.
Of the four versions of the work, the present Scream is distinguished in
several remarkable ways: it is the most colorful and vibrant of the four;
the only version whose original frame was hand-painted by the artist to
include his poem detailing the work's inspiration; and the only version in
which one of the two figures in the background turns to look outward onto
the cityscape. This version has never before been on public view in either
the UK or US, except briefly in the National Gallery in Washington D.C.
decades ago.
The Scream has been in the collection of the Olsen family for over 70 years.
Thomas Olsen, scion of the great ship-owning dynasty, was a collector and
supporter of Munch from the late 1920s. Olsen and the artist were neighbors
at Hvitsten in Norway, where the young businessman's role grew from friend
to patron and eventually to protector of his works.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/sales-series/2012/impressionist-mode
