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It sold for $19,000 (hammer) to New York dealer Kate Ganz, who sold it (for about the same sum) to the Canadian-born, Europe-based connoisseur Peter Silverman in 2007.

2009 = 157,275,754.50 USD

A mere 8,277% increase and a very, Very, VERY GREAT INVESTMENT! Of course the buyer took his chances and had to make a, for the time, large investment. However, I am sure that some governmental tax collector somewhere is looking VERY CLOSELY at the whole situation.

[Stoat]

Indeed. I hope also that significant security will be embraced in all aspects of this work's storage and showing. I hope that Sweden will be more careful than the Munch Museum in Norway was.

Epoch Times - The Art of Protection

"The Scream" and "Madonna," two major paintings by famous Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, were stolen several years ago from the Munch Museum in Norway by armed robbers in broad daylight.