"The writing has always been visible to the naked eye, but it's been very difficult to interpret," said Thierry Ford, paintings conservator at the National Museum. The museum confirmed the inscription's origins while the painting is undergoing extensive conservation in preparation for its installation in Oslo, Munch's home city, next year. "The handwriting itself, as well as events that happened in 1895, when Munch showed the painting in Norway for the first time, all point in the same direction." Infrared photography at the National Museum of Norway. "The writing is without a doubt Munch's own," said Mai Britt Guleng, curator at the National Museum. The museum analyzed the handwriting and compared it to Munch's diaries and letters from the time. New infrared scans, which don't impact the painting, have shown that Munch left the tiny sentence on the corner of the painting, written in pencil after the work was already complete.
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