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Credit: Reuters/Sotheby's Related News Richter helps Sotheby's contemporary sale hit target Wed, Feb 15 2012 Some top lots stumble at mixed Sotheby's sale Wed, Feb 8 2012 Records tumble at Christie's art sale Wed, Feb 8 2012 Top auction houses to put art market rally to test Mon, Feb 6 2012 Analysis & Opinion Why art isn’t a commodity, Cady Noland edition Weird art-valuation justifications of the day, Sarah Thornton edition Related Topics Entertainment » Fashion » Arts » Lifestyle » By Mike Collett-White LONDON | Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:42am EST LONDON (Reuters) - Sotheby's will offer the only privately owned version of Edvard Munch's haunting work "The Scream" at an auction in New York on May 2, where it expects it to fetch more than $80 million. The 1895 work is owned by Norwegian businessman Petter Olsen, whose father Thomas was a friend, neighbor and patron of Munch, the auctioneer said on Tuesday. There are four versions of the famous depiction of a figure facing out with its hands to its ears apparently screaming. The three others belong to Norwegian museum collections. Simon Shaw, senior vice president and head of Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art department in New York, called the pastel-on-board creation "one of the most important works of art in private hands. "Given how rarely true icons come to the market it is difficult to predict The Scream's value," he added in a statement. "The recent success of masterpieces at Sotheby's suggests that the price could exceed $80 million." The auctioneer called The Scream one of the most instantly recognizable images in art and popular culture, second only perhaps to Leonardo Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa." It seeks to communicate Munch's anxiety in the hills above Oslo and has been interpreted by many as the embodiment of modern-day anxiety and existential angst. Sotheby's drew comparisons with Munch's Dutch contemporary Vincent Van Gogh, as both artists strived to put their psychological experiences on to canvas. It also said the version on offer at its impressionist and modern art evening auction was the "most colorful and vibrant" of the four images and the only one in which one of the figures in the background turns to look at the cityscape. The work also features a hand-painted inscription on its frame in which Munch explains his motivation for image. It includes the lines "My Friends walked on-I remained behind/shivering with Anxiety-I felt the great Scream in Nature." NARROW ESCAPES Olsen said proceeds from the sale would go towards building a new museum, art centre and hotel at his farm in Norway. His father, Thomas, was the scion of a ship-owning family who supported Munch from the late 1920s, and the men were neighbors at Hvitsten in Norway. During the Nazi regime, Munch's works were declared "degenerate" and removed from the great public German collections. Olsen stepped in to help rescue 74 of the works, probably saving them from destruction. Before Olsen and his family fled Norway for Britain in 1940, he transported his art collection, including the work now being sold, to Sandbu, a family farm where it remained until Norway's liberation in 1945. Two other versions of The Scream have been the subject of high-profile art thefts in recent years. In 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery of Norway and fled with the museum's 1893 version of The Scream. A successful sting operation brought the work back to the museum later that year, unharmed. A decade later, masked gunmen stole Munch's 1910 version of The Scream, as well as his Madonna, from the Munch Museum, also in Oslo. Both works were recovered two years later, and went back on exhibition in 2008. 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