NEW YORK (AP) – A work by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch is poised to sell for more than $50 million at Sotheby’s auction of impressionist and modern art.
“Girls on the Bridge,” a seminal work from 1902, depicts a cluster of girls huddled on a bridge in a country village. It sold in 1996 for $7.7 million and again in 2008 for $30.8 million, each time setting a record for the artist.
The auction is scheduled for Monday evening in New York City.
In 2012, Munch’s work “The Scream,” one of the most iconic images in art history, sold for $119.9 million at Sotheby’s. It became the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction, a record that has been broken four times since.
Pablo Picasso’s “Women of Algiers (Version O)” now holds that distinction. It sold last year for $179.4 million.