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
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