Petter Olsen

Petter Halfdan Rudolf Fredrik Olsen ( born 1948 in Norway) is a Norwegian entrepreneur and art collector.

Life

Olsen comes from the Norwegian entrepreneur Olsen family, the. On the shipping company Fred Olsen & Co. is involved. Olsen is also the main shareholder in the corporation Firmament A / S, which emerged from the Fred Olsen group and belong to the other subsidiaries. Olsen is also Chairman of two companies. Petter Olsen inherited from his mother Henriette Olsen collection of paintings, who had acquired his parents during their lifetime.

The pastel version of The Scream from 1895 was sold at auction May 2, 2012 at a Sotheby's auction in New York for 119 922 500 U.S. dollars to Leon Black. That was the hitherto highest price at auction for a work of art. Between the two brothers, Fredrick and Petter Olsen came as a result of the sale of this image to a dispute over the inheritance.