Stefan Wermuth / Reuters

Sotheby's employees pose with Edvard Munch's painting "The scream" at Sotheby's auction in London on April 12.

$80 million for a painting makes me want to 'Scream'


Sotheby's will offer the only privately owned version of Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" at an auction in New York on May 2, and expects it to fetch more than $80 million.

There are only four versions of "The Scream"; this pastel version dates from 1895.

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