Munch's Vampire Sale

Edvard Munch's Vampire (1894) is to be auctioned by Sotheby's New York after more than 70 years in a private collection. It will be displayed in London from 3 to 7 October and in Moscow from 16 to 19 October before going to New York for the auction on 3 November. Sotheby's are hoping for £19m ($35m). The original title of this work was Love and Pain and it clearly shows a woman comforting a distressed man. Bram Stoker's hugely successful Gothic horror novel Dracula was published in 1897, three years after Love and Pain was unveiled, and it may well have inspired the painting's popular name and changed how it is perceived.