The scream

• NEW YORK -- Sometimes beauty is trumped by the beast.
(Los Angeles Times)
• A version of Edvard Munch's "The Scream," one of the most recognizable images in art history, sold at Sotheby's on Wednesday night for $119.9 million, the most ever paid for an artwork at auction.
(New York Times)
• By DEEPTI HAJELA and ULA ILNYTSKY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - One of the art worlds most recognizable images - Edvard Munchs The Scream - sold Wednesday for a record $119,922,500 at auction in New York City.
(msnbc.com)
• Edvard Munch's famous painting, "The Scream," sold at auction tonight for $119.9 million, breaking a record.
(Forbes)
• NEW YORK, May 2 (UPI) -- An anonymous buyer paid nearly $120 million for a pastel version of Edvard Munchs The Scream Wednesday at a New York auction, Sothebys said.
(United Press International)
• An 1895 version of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" has sold for almost $120m, breaking the record for an artwork sold at auction, the $106m paid in 2010 for Pablo Picasso's "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust".
(Financial Times)
• A version of Edvard Munch's "The Scream," one of the most recognizable images in art history, sold at Sotheby's on Wednesday night for just under $120 million, the most ever paid for a painting at auction.
(New York Times Blogs)
• NEW YORK (CNN) -- Edvard Munchs iconic painting The Scream fetched nearly $120 million from an unknown buyer Wednesday at Sothebys in New York, setting a new world record for a work of art sold at auction.
(Denver Channel)
• One of four versions of Edvard Munch's 1895 masterpiece, "The Scream," sold at auction for a record $119,922,500 at Sotheby's in New York today. The sale shattered the old record price for an artwork sold at auction.
(ABC News)
• Edvard Munch's The Scream is expected to become the most expensive painting ever sold when it hits the auction block at Sotheby's today. Now that's something to yell about.
(Time)