2004-08-26
... ? Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | Carry on screamingHow many Screams are there? Reports of the theft of a Scream from an Oslo museum at the weekend described it as one of four versions of Edvard Munch's despairing masterpiece. But depending on how you calculate it, there are anything from two to 50 versions of this iconic image - although the historian who has it at 50, in a book published by Taschen, may, I feel, have drunk too much absinthe trying to get into that symbolist fin-de-siècle mood.
