名畫《吶喊》將拍賣估價超八千萬美元

Sotheby's will offer the only privately owned version of Edvard Munch's haunting work "The Scream" at an auction in New York on May 2 where it expects to fetch over $80 million, the highest pre-sale value the auctioneer has ever put on a work of Art。

The 1895 work is owned by Norwegian businessman Petter Olsen, whose father Thomas was a friend, neighbor and patron of Munch, the auctioneer said on Tuesday。

There are four versions of the famous depiction of a figure facing out with its hands to its ears apparently screaming. The three others belong to Norwegian museum collections。

Simon Shaw, senior vice president and head of Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art department in New York, called the pastel-on-board creation "one of the most important works of art in private hands"。

"Given how rarely true icons come to the market it is difficult to predict The Scream's value," he added in a statement. "The recent success of masterpieces at Sotheby's suggests that the price could exceed $80 million."

The auctioneer called The Scream one of the most instantly recognizable images in art and popular culture, second only perhaps to Leonardo Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa"。

The painting seeks to communicate Munch's anxiety in the hills above Oslo and has been interpreted by many as the embodiment of modern-day anxiety and existential angst。蘇富比拍賣行將於5月2日紐約拍賣會上出售愛德華•蒙克的震撼作品《吶喊》，預計拍得價格超過8000萬美元，是有史以來拍賣商給藝術品定出的最高預售價。這幅畫是《吶喊》系列中唯一一幅私人珍藏品。

據拍賣商周二稱，這幅1895年創作的名畫爲挪威商人皮特•奧爾森所有，他的父親托馬斯是蒙克的朋友、鄰居和資助人。

《吶喊》系列總共有四個版本，描繪的都是我們所熟知的那個場景：一個人用手捂着耳朵看着畫外在尖叫。其他三個版本是挪威博物館的收藏品。

西蒙•肖恩是蘇富比拍賣行位於紐約的印象派及現代藝術部的高級副總裁和主管。他將這幅粉彩木版畫稱爲“私人珍藏的最重要的藝術品之一”。

他在一份聲明中還說：“考慮到真正的經典鉅作極少在市場上露面，我們很難預估《吶喊》的價格。蘇富比近幾次成功拍賣名作的經驗表明，該畫的成交價將超過8000萬美元。”

拍賣商將《吶喊》稱作藝術和流行文化中識別度最高的畫作之一，大概僅次於列奧納多•達•芬奇的《蒙娜麗莎》。

這幅畫力圖傳達蒙克在奧斯陸山中時的焦慮之情，許多人將其解讀爲表現了現代人普遍存在的焦慮和對自身存在的不安。