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Final secret of Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ revealed A barely legible phrase scribbled on a modern masterpiece gives new insight into the private thoughts of one of the world’s great painters. Researchers in Norway used infrared photography to analyse the mysterious words scrawled on Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’.   Annar Bjorgli/The National Museum Nina Siegal Save Share Edvard Munch’s The Scream, from 1893, is one of the world’s most famous paintings, but for years art historians have mostly ignored a tiny inscription, written in pencil, at the...

Last modified on Mon 22 Feb 2021 00.08 EST It is an image that has intrigued the art world for more than a century and become synonymous with existential angst, and recently inspired its own emoji, but now some graffiti has added a new layer to the story of Edvard Munch’s most iconic painting, The Scream. A tiny pencil inscription in the top left corner of one of the four versions of the painting, which reads, “Can only have been painted by a madman”, has been the subject of debate over who wrote it – it was originally thought to be by Munch, but was later attributed to a vandal – b...

Art Mystery Solved: Who Wrote on Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’? The authorship of the tiny inscription, “Could only have been painted by a madman,” was disputed. Curators in Oslo say the artist definitely wrote it himself. (But why?) Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.”Credit...National Museum of Norway By Nina Siegal Feb. 21, 2021 Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” from 1893, is one of the world’s most famous paintings, but for years art historians have mostly ignored a tiny inscription, written in pencil, at the upper left corner of its frame, rea...

Infrared scans indicate that the phrase, "Can only have been painted by a madman", matches the artist’s handwriting

'Painted by a madman': The Scream graffiti may reveal Munch's state of mind Lanre Bakare © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Alamy It is an image that has intrigued the art world for more than a century and become synonymous with existential angst, and recently inspired its own emoji, but now some graffiti has added a new layer to the story of Edvard Munch’s most iconic painting, The Scream. A tiny pencil inscription in the top left corner of one of the four versions of the painting, which reads, “Can only have been painted by a madman”, has been the subject of deb...