Keep The Scream dry to preserve its pigments, chemical analysis suggests

By Katrina Krämer2020-05-15T18:00:00

Source: © Irina Crina Anca Sandu and Eva Storevik Tveit/Munch Museum.

Moisture – not light – hastens the degradation of yellow cadmium colours in Edvard Munch’s 1910 painting

Humidity, not light, is the reason the bright yellow colours in expressionist artist Edvard Munch’s 1910 painting The Scream are turning white, chemical analysis has discovered.