Edvard Munch’s ‘Girls’ May Fetch $50 Million at Sotheby’s Sale
- Painting is top lot at $146 million November auction
- There’s ‘appetite to buy but not many people wanting to sell’
Four years after Edvard Munch was crowned the most expensive artist at auction, the Norwegian painter will take center stage again in New York next month.
The artist’s 1902 canvas “Girls on the Bridge” is estimated at more than $50 million, the most costly of the announced lots for the bellwether semiannual auctions in November. The artwork, depicting a group of women in colorful long dresses, will lead Sotheby’s evening sale of Impressionist and modern art on Nov. 14.