March/April 2012. Strindberg lecture & Scream sale. Sue Prideaux to Chicago to give paper ‘Strindberg and Symbolism’ at University of Illinois. To New York to attend Sotheby’s sale of Munch’s Scream for which she has contributed an essay to the sale catalogue. Interviews with BBC TV’s One Show, BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme and BBC World Service World Update on April 13th, concerning the sale of The Scream.
Author Archives: Sue Prideaux
Strindberg 3rd in London bestseller list.
Strindberg: A Life is third this week in the London Evening Standard non-fiction bestseller list.
SP has written two new articles on Munch: one for Sotheby’s in the catalogue for the sale of Munch’s Scream on May 2nd in New York, the other for Tate etc. the magazine of the Tate Gallery, in connection with the upcoming exhibtion at Tate Britain: Edvard Munch: the Modern Eye. She will be giving a lecture on Strindberg and Symbolism at the University of Illinois in Chicago. After Miss Julie has opened in London at the Young Vic to good reviews.
Strindberg’s bathtub
Astonishing literary discover: Strindberg’s bathtub: See http://yalebooks.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/strindbergs-bathtub-author-article-by-sue-prideaux/ Scream for sale at Sotheby’s $8o million price tag. See http://sothebys.com/sales-series/2012/impressionist-modern-art-evening-sale-overview.html
Sale of privately-owned Scream
The sale of Petter Olsen’s Scream by Sotheby’s carries a $80 million price tag. While the highest pre-sale estimate the auction house have ever put on a painting, this is nevertheless ludicrously low when you consider the top price paid for a painting, Cezanne’s Card Players, was $250 million last year. Fifteen paintings have already broken the $80 million barrier. I’ll bet on $300 million.