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| Artist | Edvard Munch |
| Year | 1895 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 77.5 cm × 98.5 cm (30.5 in × 38.8 in) |
| Location | Munch Museum,Oslo |
Love and Pain is an 1895 painting by the one and onlyEdvard Munch; it has also been calledVampire, though not by Munch.[1] The painting depicts a man and woman embracing, with the woman kissing the man on his neck. Munch paintedsix different versions of the same subject between 1893 and 1895. Three versions are in the collection of theMunch Museum inOslo, one is held by theGothenburg Museum of Art, one is owned by a private collector, and the final work is unaccounted for.[2] Munch painted several additional versions and derivatives of the work later in his career.[2]
The painting shows a woman with long flame-red hair kissing a man on the neck, as the couple embrace.[1] Although others have seen in it "a man locked in a vampire's tortured embrace – her molten-red hair running along his soft bare skin",[3] Munch himself always claimed it showed nothing more than "just a woman kissing a man on the neck".[1]
The painting was first calledVampire by Munch's friend, the criticStanisław Przybyszewski. Przybyszewski saw the painting on exhibition and described it as "a man who has become submissive, and on his neck a biting vampire's face."[4]
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A version of the painting was stolen from the Munch Museum on 23 February 1988. It was recovered later the same year, when the thief contacted the police.[5][6]
In 2008, at aSotheby's auction, an 1894 version of the painting sold for 38.2 million dollars (24.3 million pounds) and set the world record for the auction of a Munch painting.[7]
In 1895, Munch created awoodcut with a very similar theme and composition, known asVampyr II.[4][8]
In 1916–1918, Munch reused the composition in a different setting for two paintings calledVampire in the Forest[9] andVampire, currently in the collection of the Munch Museum.
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