A Norwegian museum claims to have found out who left a message on the famous painting The Scream by painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944) from 1893. On it is written in Norwegian “Could only have been painted by a madman”. Experts now say that the painter himself is behind that inscription.
The message is more than a century old. The first known reference to the text dates from 1904, reports the National Museum in Oslo. A Danish art critic at the time believed that a visitor had left the message on Munch’s work.
“It’s easy to imagine an indignant spectator doing that The Scream looked at a pencil to give his opinion on both the artwork and the maker, “the museum writes in a statement.” But that was not the case.
The text is in the top left corner of the canvas. It can just be seen with the naked eye. Experts discovered the identity of the writer of that message after examining it with an infrared camera. They then established without a doubt that it was the painter’s handwriting.
Munch eventually made several versions of it The Scream. The inscription is on the original.
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