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Rebecca Shepherd
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2:23 PM, February 22 2021 GMT
It has been revealed that graffiti which was scribbled on one of the world s most well-known paintings was put there by the artist himself.
Scans were carried out on Edvard Munch s painting known as The Scream , showing that the graffiti - which is barely visible - was in fact written by him.
The words Can only have been painted by a madman , can be found written in pencil in the top left-hand corner.
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They were first spotted (or at least spoken about) in 1904 - 11 years after Munch completed the painting, which was originally titled Der Schrei der Natur ( The Scream of Nature ).
(CNN) A tiny message hidden in Edvard Munch s famous painting The Scream was written by the artist himself, a new investigation of the work has found, finally resolving one of modern art s most enduring mysteries.
The message Can only have been painted by a madman, scrawled and barely visible in the top left-hand corner of the painting, has been the subject of debate for decades and was widely believed to have been an act of vandalism by a viewer of the piece.
But extensive research by the National Museum of Norway has revealed that Munch wrote the phrase himself.
A tiny message hidden in Edvard Munch's famous painting "The Scream" was written by the artist himself, a new investigation of the work has found, finally resolving one of modern art's most enduring mysteries.