Love and Pain Munch

"Love and Pain," also known as "Vampire," is an 1895 painting by Edvard Munch. It depicts a man and woman embracing, with the woman kissing the man on his neck. Munch created six versions of this subject between 1893 and 1895, three of which are held by the Munch Museum in Oslo, one by the Gothenburg Museum of Art, another by a private collector, and the sixth unaccounted for. The painting was first named "Vampire" by Munch's friend, critic Stanisław Przybyszewski, who described it as showing a man bitten by a vampire.

Munch later reused the composition in two paintings titled "Vampire in the Forest" and "Vampire," created between 1916–1918. An 1894 version sold at a Sotheby's auction in 2008 for $38.2 million, setting a record for Munch's work. Another version was stolen from the Munch Museum in 1988 but recovered later that year when the thief contacted authorities.