I read a book about the theft of "the Scream" from that museum in Norway.

1. Munch painted several of them.

2. He was poor, and he painted them on cardboard. They are not going to last.

3. The person in the painting isn't emitting a scream but covering the ears and showing the pain of HEARING a scream.

4. Munch's family suffered insanity. The sound of the scream was his mind's interpretation of the intense color of a particularly vivid sunset. Some think the explosion of Krakatoa (I think it was Krakatoa) was the reason for the vivid sunset.

By the way, remember all the to-do about the sale of Van Gogh's Sunflowers for an obscene sum? It turned out that the sale was a fake. One Japanese bank wanted to transfer millions to another, and they did it by making a fake sale of Sunflowers.

Maybe the purchase of an un-unique work on cardboard for $119,900,000 money is fake, too.