sentences:  Fights between different schools of Swedish artists caused the "Midvinterblot" controversy to continue for many years.In 1987 the museum was even offered the monumental painting for free, provided it would adorn the empty wall for which it had been intended, but the museum declined the offer, so the painting was sold to the Japanese collector Hiroshi Ishizuka.In 1992, he agreed to lend it to the museum for its major Carl Larsson exhibition, where it was hung in the intended place.