A VIEW TO A SHILL DEPT.
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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…
A version of Edvard Munch's painting The Scream sold for $119.9 million at auction yesterday, which got us wondering: could any of our classic parody masterpieces fetch a similar amount?
"Edvard Munkee's 'The Screech'" from "MOMA — The Museum of Monkey Art",
MAD #488, April 2008 Artist: James Warhola
"Howard Dean's Scream" from MAD #449, January 2005
Writer: Desmond Devlin Artist: James Warhola
From "The 50 Worst Things About America", MAD #515, June 2012
Artist: Hermann Mejia
