Edvard Munch nature." He later described the personal anguish behind the painting, "for several years I was almost mad… You know my picture, 'The Scream?' I was stretched to the limit—nature was screaming in my blood… After that I gave up hope ever of being able to love again." In summing up the painting's effects, author Martha Tedeschi has stated: "Whistler's Mother", Wood's "American Gothic", Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" and Edvard Munch's "The Scream" have all achieved something that most paintings—regardless of their art historical importance, beauty, or monetary value—have not: they communicate a specific meaning almost immediately to almost every
Love and Pain (painting) contacted the police. In 2008, at a Sotheby'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. In 1895, Munch created a woodcut with a very similar theme and composition, known as "Vampyr II". In 1916–18, Munch reused the composition in a different setting for two paintings called "Vampire in the Forest" and "Vampire", currently in the collection of the Munch Museum. Love and Pain (painting) Love and Pain is a painting by Edvard Munch, It has also been called Vampire, though