Art mystery solved: who wrote on Edvard Munchâs The Scream?
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By Nina Siegal
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Edvard Munchâs
The Scream, from 1893, is one of the worldâs most famous paintings, but for years art historians have mostly ignored a tiny inscription in pencil at the upper-left corner of its frame, reading: âCould only have been painted by a madman.â
Who wrote the sentence there? Some thought a disgruntled viewer might have vandalised the work; others imagined it was the artist himself. But if so, why?
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