Why Did "The Scream" Sell for $119.9 Million?
As we mentioned earlier, a version of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” sold for $119.9 million — that’s the most ever paid for a work of art at auction! To give you an idea of just how much $119.9 million is: if you had 119 million $1 bills and stacked them one on top of the other…it would be a better use of time and money than whatever Michael Bay would do with the same amount of cash! Still — what makes this particular smear of pastel so special? As usual, we’ve got the answers…

"Edvard Munkee's 'The Screech'" from "MOMA — The Museum of Monkey Art",
"Howard Dean's Scream" from
From "The 50 Worst Things About America",