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Munch’s ‘Scream’ beats auction record at $119.9 million

NEW YORK — The only privately owned version of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” — one of the most recognizable paintings in history — set a world record when it sold for $119.9 million at Sotheby’s in New York. Heated competition between seven bidders took the price to the highest for…