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During a routine consignment a few years ago, Richard Lloyd, Christie’s international head of prints and multiples, discovered something he’d never seen before and couldn’t make sense of—a print of a familiar Edvard Munch work that, though signed, did not seem to correspond to any of its other known states. The quest to solve the mystery wound up taking Lloyd to Oslo, the Norwegian artist’s home until his death in 1944, where he marked an important discovery and returned with a different print, from the Munch Museum, versions of which have sold for more than $1 million.
