In May, Sotheby’s auctioned off one of four versions of Edvard Munch’s famously existential painting The Scream for $119,922,500. The unidentified winner turned out to be American financier Leon Black, who has loaned the painting to MoMA (where Black is a board member) for a six-month showcase alongside several of the artist’s other works.

Here’s our introduction to the long history of the four versions of the painting: a controversial (and unpopular) origin, threat of destruction under the Nazis, storage in a barn in Norway, and two art heists.