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New Research Suggests Mystery Inscription on ‘The Scream’ Was Written by Edvard Munch Himself

Published on , by La Gazette Drouot

Using infrared technology and handwriting analysis, curators at the National Museum of Norway have concluded that the enigmatic pencil inscription “Can only have been painted by a madman” on Munch’s legendary 1893 The Scream painting could only have been authored by the artist himself.