Norwegian

He was watched in the Norwegian capital by his family including his father, former England footballer Danny Mills, who described the achievement as "very special".

"I'm shaken to my core," Jan Egeland, the veteran head of the Norwegian Refugee Council and former UN humanitarian chief, told me.

The oil-on-canvas masterpiece had adorned the walls of a Norwegian hospital for almost five decades, forgotten by the art world, until the auction house was alerted about its presence in 2013.

He was also convicted of 82 counts of abusing his position as a doctor, Norwegian media reports.

The news was announced on Wednesday on the Norwegian synth-pop band's official website in an article written by their biographer Jan Omdahl, which also revealed the singer had already undergone brain surgery twice.