Edvard Munch such as the appearance of Munch's "The Scream" in a 2006 M&M's advertising campaign. The U.S. copyright representative for the Munch Museum and the Estate of Edvard Munch is the Artists Rights Society. Munch's art was highly personalized and he did little teaching. His "private" symbolism was far more personal than that of other Symbolist painters such as Gustave Moreau and James Ensor. Munch was still highly influential, particularly with the German Expressionists, who followed his philosophy, "I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of Man's urge to open his heart." Many of his
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