Munch ‘Scream’ May Fetch at Least $80 Million at Sotheby’s

One of the best-known images in the history of art, Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” is being sold at a New York auction in May.

The 1895 work by the Norwegian artist, one of four versions of the screaming figure, will be included in Sotheby’s May 2 sale of Impressionist and modern works. It carries a value of at least $80 million, the auction house said in an e-mailed release today.