Actually the paintings depict a polar bear eating marshmallows in a snow storm.
Danish artist told to repay museum €67,000 after turning in blank canvasses, by Alex Smith, BBC News, September 18, 2023
A Danish artist has been ordered to return nearly 500,000 kroner ($72,000; £58,000) to a museum after giving it two blank canvasses for a project he named Take the Money and Run.
The Kunsten Museum in Aalborg had intended for Jens Haaning to embed the banknotes in two pieces of art in 2021.
Instead, he gave it blank canvasses and then told dr.dk: “The work is that I have taken their money.”
A court has now ordered him to return the cash – but keep some for expenses.
The art project was intended as a statement on salaries in Denmark and Austria. Read the rest of this article here.