Sotheby's workers in London stood with Munch's 'The Scream' in
April, weeks before it was bought at auction by Leon Black.
Getty Images  New York financier Leon Black paid Sotheby's
nearly $120 million for "The Scream," Edvard Munch's 1895 pastel
of a terrified man holding his head, according to several people
close to the collector.  An auctioneer takes bids for the sale
of "The Scream" painted by Edvard Munch at Sotheby's in New York
in May. Reuters   The identity of the buyer—who set a record for
a work of art sold at auction—had been one of the art world's
most closely guarded secrets since the dramatic, 12-minute sale
in May. Now a new parlor game will begin: guessing where the
iconic artwork ends up.  Mr. Black sits on the boards of New
York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art,
setting up a potential tug of war between two of the country's
most powerful art institutions. Neither owns a "Scream," aside
from lithograph-print versions of it.  Few artworks have the
world-wide celebrity