page_title: Nils Dardel
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Nils Dardel / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: NILS VON DARDEL, "Vattenfallet". Signerad Dardel och daterad 1921. Duk uppfäst på pannå 113 x 145 cm.
context_page_description: Nils Dardel was a 20th-century Swedish Post-Impressionist painter, grandson to famous Swedish painter Fritz von Dardel.
context_section_description: Nils died in New York City in 1943, and was buried in Ekerö cemetery outside of Stockholm.
  His works are on display in a number of museums and galleries including Nationalmuseum, Göteborgs konstmuseum, Malmö konstmuseum, Nasjonalgalleriet and Waldermarsudde. His works Självporträtt (Self-portrait) and Visit hos en excentrisk dam (Visit at an eccentric lady) were featured by the Swedish Postal-works 1988 stamp series Svenska konstnärer i Paris (Swedish artists in Paris).
  His 1918 work Den döende dandyn (The dying dandy) was sold twice at record prices at Bukowskis in Stockholm; first in 1984 at 3,4 million kronor and again in 1988 for the then termed sensational 13 million kronor. Simultaneously the image took on an iconic role within the 1980s Swedish gay movement. His works came to be analyzed under the budding field of gender-studies, and the ambivalence of the sex of his characters were topic of study.
   
  Dardel's work Vattenfallet (or the Waterfall) sold for 25 million kronor in 2012 and was to date the most expensive modernist Swedish painting ever sold. The buyer was an undisclosed individual. The record in turn supplanted the earlier record held by the Dying Dandy.
caption: "Vattenfallet", 1921 – sold in 2012 for a record-breaking 25 million kronor.
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