Edvard Munch government. Munch was 76 years old. With nearly an entire collection of his art in the second floor of his house, Munch lived in fear of a Nazi confiscation. Seventy-one of the paintings previously taken by the Nazis had been returned to Norway through purchase by collectors (the other eleven were never recovered), including "The Scream" and "The Sick Child", and they too were hidden from the Nazis. Munch died in his house at Ekely near Oslo on 23 January 1944, about a month after his 80th birthday. His Nazi-orchestrated funeral suggested to Norwegians that he was a Nazi sympathizer,
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