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When The Scream set an auction record
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AI-generated editorial reconstruction of an auction room and expressive framed painting; it is not a documentary image of Sotheby’s 2012 sale or a reproduction of Munch’s pastel.
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In May 2012, a pastel version of Edvard Munch’s *The Scream* sold at Sotheby’s for US$119,922,500, setting a world record for a work of art sold at auction at the time. In November 2017, *Salvator Mundi*, attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, sold at Christie’s for US$450,312,500 and surpassed that record.


