The Scream

So everyone has been talking about how one of the four copies of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" (the only one privately owned) is set to be sold at Sotheby's for some 80 million dollars. Not exactly paltry change, but everyone has been touting it as "one of the most expensive pieces sold at auction".

I find this a little bit funny, since, adjusted for inflation, it just comes in at 13th, 23rd if you included private sales. But I guess that's "one of the most", so I can't really knock them, but I still think people are making too big a deal about it. I heard the news from three separate sources just this morning.

For the record, this is the painting topping the list at an excess of 250 million: