This famous picture is autobiographical, an expressionistic construction based on Munch's actual experience of a scream piercing through nature while on a walk, after his two companions, seen in the background, had left him.
“I felt a gust of melancholy” -Edvard Munch said in his diary 22 January 1892 – but The Scream says it all.
They're packaged in sets of two with black rubber pin backs.