The starting price is between 4 and 6 million kronor.
The painting was created in connection with Warhol saving the economy of the hockey club Frölunda almost 40 years ago. The club then let the world-famous artist paint one of the team's players and ordered an original on canvas and 100 silkscreen prints – to then sell them further.
But one of the additional four originals on canvas was purchased by the art dealer Magnus Bromander from Warhol's estate – and it has been hanging with him until now.
The background story is what's incredible about the painting. How a hockey team in Sweden manages to get the world's then largest artist to agree to create this artwork ... it's fantastic, says Victoria Svederberg, head of art at Stockholms Auktionsverk, to Göteborgs-Posten.
