There is a self-portrait in this exhilarating show of the artist naked and bleeding on an operating table. A nurse holds a bowl overflowing with blood and a vast stain is spreading through the sheets. Not one but three surgeons are in attendance and dozens of students are observing the agonies through the theatre window: witnesses, as we are, to the artist’s martyrdom.
Bought at auction in Sotheby’s, New York, for $119.9m (£74m), The Scream will join a select group of works that have sold for more than $100m, including Picasso’s Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust, which sold in 2010 for $106.5m. Here, Jonathan Jones analyses its most intriguing details.
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