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0 Comments | AFP, May, 2008
OSLO (AFP) — Edvard Munch's Expressionist masterpiece "The Scream" went back on display at an Oslo museum on Wednesday still showing signs of damage sustained in a daring 2004 heist but officially rejuvenated by nearly 20 years.
"The Scream", perhaps the most famous expression of existential angst, had until now been thought to have been painted in 1893, but the Munch Museum told a press conference on Wednesday that it probably dates from 1910, although some doubts remained.
"Written sources, combined with style studies and, to a certain extent, technical observations made during the restoration of the painting, point to a more recent dating," museum chief Ingebjoerg Ydstie told AFP.
"Experts have been squabbling since the early 1970s over the date of 1893....
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