Edvard Munch 2008, the painting "Vampire" set a new record for his paintings when it was sold for US$38,162,000 at Sotheby's New York. Munch's image appears on the Norwegian 1,000-kroner note, along with pictures inspired by his artwork. In February 2012, a major Munch exhibition, "Edvard Munch. The Modern Eye", opened at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; the exhibition was opened by Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway. In May 2012, "The Scream" sold for US$119.9 million, and is the second most expensive artwork ever sold at an open auction. (It was surpassed in November 2013 by "Three Studies of Lucian Freud", which sold
Jappe Nilssen the painting "The Physician Lucien Dedichen and Jappe Nilssen" in 1925–1926. Both paintings are owned by the Oslo Municipal Art Collection. A drawing by Munch shows Nilssen together with Henrik Ibsen at the Grand Cafe. The painter Ludvig Karsten also created a portrait of Nilssen in 1915. In 1891, Nilssen is said to have had an affair with Oda Krohg, who was ten years older than him and married to Christian Krohg. Edvard Munch wrote about this unhappy love affair, and it also provided the background for his 1891 painting "Melancholy". Nilssen's first novel, "Nemesis", describes the young writer Nils