Munch Selling for More After Thefts, Says Auction House

Courtesy Sotheby's

Edvard Munch's "Girls on a Bridge" (1902) sold for $30.8 million at Sotheby's in May.

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"[Munch's] works got a lot of attention from the robbery at the Munch Museum in 2004," said Knut Forsberg, director of Blomqvist Auctions in Oslo. "Attention always draws prices up."

However, Sotheby's Oslo representative said that "important exhibitions and the Olsen sale [the auction of Munch works by shipping entrepreneur Fred Olsen in February 2006]" were more significant factors than the thefts.