The Colombians munch on dangerously strange hot dogs blanketed in French fries and mashed potatoes.
Trendy patrons happily queue for up to 45 minutes to munch on dishes from tacos to ice cream.
Media moguls and other movers and shakers still munch merrily at The Four Seasons.
Works by Renoir, Degas, Monet and Edvard Munch and a sculpture by Modigliani were also sold.
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Munch's use of color, art historians say, is a distinguishing characteristic of this version.
Olsen was the Norwegian shipping magnate who was a friend and patron of Munch.
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The new venue is set to open next year, the 150th anniversary of Munch's birth.
"Fertility, " a Munch pastoral scene that adorned a 2010 Christie's catalog cover, failed to sell at all.
Patrons at the city's cafes sip wine and munch peanuts, seated in rickety chairs facing the street.
The placement and gestures of the figures within the Munch-like composition, especially Jonah, clarify the tense narrative.
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However, it was by these waters close to the Norwegian capital that Edvard Munch set his bestknown work, The Scream.
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His father Thomas was a friend and neighbor of Munch, and amassed a large collection of the artist's work.
It belonged to his father, Thomas Olsen, a patron and neighbor of Munch's in the tiny Norwegian town of Hvitsten.
Munch also created a lithograph of "The Scream" in 1895, the same year he executed the pastel auctioned on Wednesday.
It's easy to overeat if you munch straight from a box of cereal, for instance, or a bag of pretzels.
Thanks to patron Thomas, the Olsen family and their friends were able to enjoy the Munch works privately for decades.
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Another more prosaic reason for the repetitive nature of Munch's painting was that he hated being parted from his work.
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But are the arguments compelling enough to make you munch on a bag of crunchy scorpions or sprinkle your cereal with squidgy larvae?
He used to munch on junk food during recess, but as he got older, he forced himself to eat planned, healthy meals.
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The other three are housed in National Gallery of Norway and at the Munch Museum in the Norwegian capital, according to Sotheby's.
Sotheby's has long been laying the groundwork for the Munch market, engineering eight of the top 10 Munch sales in recent years.
The juveniles munch away, but adults apparently skip a meal or 21.
Mr. Olsen has said he is selling it in order to fund a museum of Munch's work in Hvitsten to open next year.
In August 2004, another version of The Scream was stolen in Oslo along with Munch's The Madonna, this time from the Munch Museum.
As Dr Mushtaq Margoob takes a break to munch a chapati and sip milky tea, he talks of Kashmir as a broken society.
As for food, Broadway theaters have allowed snacks and drinks for years, and people crunch and munch through Lincoln Center performances all the time.
Total sales for the quarter fell by 2.9%, although this was due to Northern having sold its Ski and Munch Bunch brands in April.
Popular culture has embraced the iconography, from the mask in Wes Craven's Scream films to the Munch-inspired alien villains The Silence in Doctor Who.
It is also the only one to include a poem by Munch on the frame, which talks of the inspiration behind the series of works.
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