The Scream
The lithograph, not the painting — Munch printed the image in black ink in 1895, two years after the first painted version, and it is the print that carried it around the world.
The lithograph, not the painting — Munch printed the image in black ink in 1895, two years after the first painted version, and it is the print that carried it around the world.
He cut a line into the stone beneath it: 'Ich fühlte das grosse Geschrei durch die Natur' — I felt the great scream through nature. The German is there because he was working in Berlin. Signed in pencil at the lower right.