Focus on The Dying Dandy and discuss the Provenance.
In 1984 the painting was sold as one of Sweden's most valued works of art and generated much publicity. The high price paid by financier Fredrik Roos at the time has been seen as symptomatic of a capitalist art market.
The price paid was 3.4 million kronor and was a record high for a Swedish art. Four years later, in 1988, Roos sold the painting for 13 million kronor, which was again considered to be very high, to the financier Hans Thulin. The painting then ended up in the possession of the financier Thomas Fischer after Thulin went into bankruptcy in 1991. Today it is owned by the Moderna Museet.On April 4, 2007, a smaller version of the painting in watercolor was sold for 3.25 million crowns to a Swedish collector via auction firm Bukowskis. Dardel's work Vattenfallet (The Waterfall) sold for 25 million kronor in 2012 and was to date the most expensive modernist Swedish painting ever sold.
Bukowskis Fredrik Roos Moderna Museet Hans Thulin