Vilhelm Hammershoi

Lot 31: VILHELM HAMMERSHØI

Name: VILHELM HAMMERSHØI
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: 4bce008ab4

Est: £400,000 GBP - £600,000 GBPSold:

Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomJune 11, 2012

Item Overview

Description

PROPERTY OF A LADY, DENMARK
DANISH
1864 - 1916
INTERIOR WITH TWO CANDLES
signed with initials V.H. lower right
oil on canvas
67.5 by 54cm., 26½ by 21¼in.

Artist or Maker

Vilhelm Hammershoi

Exhibited

Copenhagen, Forum, Det danske Kunststævne, 1929, no. 57
Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, Vilhelm Hammershøi: The Poetry of Silence, 2008, no. 78, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Alfred Bramsen & Sophus Michaëlis, Vilhelm Hammershøi. Kunstneren og hans værk, Copenhagen & Christiania, 1918, p. 102, no. 259, catalogued and discussed
Susanne Meyer-Abich, Vilhelm Hammershøi: Das malerische Werk, PhD thesis, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, 1996, no. 247

Provenance

Carl Robert Lamm, Näsby Castle near Stockholm (1856-1938; inventor, industrialist and collector, Lamm was an important patron of contemporary Scandinavian artists including Hammershøi and Carl Larsson)
Acquired by the parents-in-law of the present owner; thence by descent circa 1950

Auction Details

European Paintings

Sotheby's

June 11, 2012, 12:00 PM GMT

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK

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