The 1910 tempera version of “The Scream” was created in 1910.
It is one of four major painted or pastel versions of Edvard Munch’s composition. The earliest painted version dates from 1893, while two pastel versions are associated with 1893 and 1895. The later painted version, made in 1910, belongs to the Munch Museum in Oslo and is commonly described as a tempera painting on cardboard.
The 1910 work is sometimes confused with the National Museum’s better-known 1893 version. That earlier picture is a mixed-media work using oil, tempera, pastel and crayon, whereas the later version is chiefly identified with tempera, alongside oil in some museum technical descriptions.
The date is also notable because the 1910 version became part of a dramatic modern history. It was stolen from the Munch Museum in Oslo in 2004, together with Munch’s “Madonna,” and recovered in 2006. The episode helped reinforce the distinction between the 1893 National Museum painting and the 1910 Munch Museum version.