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There are technically five separate versions of Expressionist artist Edvard Munch’s most famous work, “The Scream”. The first two, from 1893 and created with tempera and crayon on cardboard, are located in the National Gallery in Oslo and the Munch Museum, respectively. A privately owned third version, created in 1895 with pastels, sold for nearly $120 million at auction. Yet another version, from 1895, is a black and white lithograph. A final version, completed in 1910 by Munch, due to the popularity of the previous incarnations, is also held in the Munch Museum. It made headlines for being stolen in 2004 and recovered in 2006.
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