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Lot 33: VILHELM  HAMMERSHØI

Est: £100,000 GBP - £150,000 GBPSold:
Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomJune 11, 2012

Item Overview

Description

PROPERTY  FROM  A  DANISH  PRIVATE  COLLECTION
DANISH
1864  -  1916
STRANDGADE  WITH  CHRISTIANS  KIRKE  IN  THE  BACKGROUND
signed  with  initials  VH.  lower  right
oil  on  canvas
61  by  79cm.,  24  by  31  1/8  in.

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

Probably, London, Guildhall Art Gallery, Exhibition of a Selection of Works by Danish Painters, 1907
Copenhagen, Den frie Udstilling, 1911-12

Literature

Alfred Bramsen & Sophus Michaëlis, Vilhelm Hammershøi. Kunstneren og hans værk, Copenhagen & Christiania, 1918, p. 107, no. 313, catalogued and discussed (as dating from 1908)

Provenance

Galerie Commeter, Hamburg
Carl Meyer, Hamburg (by 1918; probably acquired from the above)
Acquired by the step-father of the present owner in the 1940s

Auction Details

European Paintings

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Sotheby's
June 11, 2012, 12:00 PM GMT

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