Munch's "The Scream" Sells for $119.9M at Sotheby's, Setting A World Record. Watch the entire 12 minutes of bidding!

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Edvard Munch's "The Scream" sold at Sotheby's in New York this evening for a hammer price of $107 million, or $119.9 million with commission, setting a record for the highest price ever paid for a work of art at auction.  It surpassed slightly the earlier record held by Picasso's "Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust," which sold for $106.5 in May 2010.

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