A few years ago, I had one of those "O God I have lived long enuff" moments on reading that a record auction price for a painting had been paid in NY for a work by ~~ not Leonardo or Davids or Botticelli or Rembrandt ~~ but by that now-pretty-well-forgotten 'action'-bike-over-canvas fellow whose name eludes me for the moment ~

~ ah, Jackson Pollock, that's it.

Like I say, he is largely forgotten [isn't he?] & I think that buyer caught a cold. Surely the Munch painting has at least a lengthy tradition of admiration and respect, and is of much worth, no matter how inflated this latest price paid might seem to be?

~Michael~