Edvard Munch Authored Mysterious Writing on ‘The Scream,’ New Analysis Reveals

In 1904, a Danish critic took a close look at Edvard Munch’s The Scream and noticed something startling: faint handwriting in the far corner of the canvas that reads, “Can only have been painted by a madman.” Since then, the origins of the inscription baffled curators, some of whom assumed it was graffiti by a spectator or a jab at the famously anguished artist.
But a new analysis of the painting by Norway’s National Museum has revealed the words were added by Munch himse