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- How Image Becomes Icon said that it is the "sheer power of the image... the communicative power which manages to transmit... that elemental power" that makes it so iconic.
- Professor Kemp said a large number of iconic images are about faces and "decoding the expression".
- Sue Prideaux, biographer and author of Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream explained that Munch was hitting 30 when he painted the work and "incredibly unsuccessful as an artist".
- BBC reference
- 50 Million pound art piece
- A portrait of Lucian Freud by Francis Bacon $142.2m
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