The painting of the famous Norwegian artist Edvard Munch's "Girls on the Bridge" sold in New York for $ 54.5 million

The painting of the famous Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944), "Girls on the Bridge" (Pikene pa broen, 1902) sold at auction in New York for nearly $ 54.5 million. Trading on Monday held the auction house Sotheby's.

Estimated value of the paintings, which depicts three girls standing on a bridge over a river in a small village, was $ 50 ppm This picture, which is considered one of the key works of the artist and belongs to a series of similar works, in 1996, it was sold for $ 7, 7 million. in 2008 it was sold already for $ 30.8 million.

This record price among the works of Norwegian belongs to his famous painting "The Scream" (Skrik, 1893), which is $ 119.9 million went to bid for 2012.
At Sotheby's auction of contemporary art in New York, he has also found its new owner of the work of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) "Artist and Model" (El pintor y la modelo, 1960). It was sold for $ 12.9 million at an estimated cost of $ 12-18 million.

Cloth-known avant-garde Hungarian Laszlo Moho-Nagy (1895-1946) "Phone picture EM 1" (EM 1 Telephonbild, 1923) was sold for $ 6.1 million, exceeding its estimated value twice. The painting by the French artist Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958) "Orchard" (Le Verger, 1905) was sold for $ 7.6 million.

As the representatives of Sotheby's, the auction up to the auction could fetch a total of $ 157.7 million.