Edvard Munch - The Scream

I just heard that "The Scream" masterpiece, by the Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch, will soon be auctioned.  Sotheby's suggest the artwork price tag could exceed $80m (£50m).

Munch described his inspiration for the image thus:

"I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city – my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety – and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream