Career
Olsen & Company He is the younger brother of the current leader of the company, Fredrik Olsen. Petter Olsen formerly owned one of the four versions of Edvard Munch"s The Scream (1895), one of the world"s most iconic works of art Fredrik Olsen disputed the will but lost the case in the Oslo District Court in 2001.
Petter Olsen"s version of The Scream was sold on 2 May 2012, selling for an auction record price of United States$119.9 million, including fees and commission.
Petter Olsen sold the painting to raise funds to build a museum in Hvitsten, Norway, where Munch once owned property and near where Olsen has an estate, to house the rest of his father"s collection. Olsen has been the patron of the British Shakespeare Company since 2006, when the Company began performing at Ramme Gaard, Olsen"s ecological estate with an outdoor amphitheatre on the coast of Norway.
