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Lot 41: VILHELM HAMMERSHØI

Est: £500,000 GBP - £700,000 GBPSold:
Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomNovember 22, 2011

Item Overview

Description

PROPERTY FROM A DANISH PRIVATE COLLECTION
DANISH
1864 - 1916
INTERIOR WITH IDA IN A WHITE CHAIR
signed with initials VH lower right
oil on canvas
57 by 49cm., 22½ by 19¼in.

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard, Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1981, no. 70, illustrated in the catalogue
New York, Wildenstein Gallery; Washington, The Phillips Collection: Vilhelm Hammershøi, Painter of Stillness and Light, 1983, no. 44
Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard & Paris, Musée d'Orsay: Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1997, no. 19

Literature

Sophus Michaëlis and Alfred Bramsen, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Copenhagen, 1918, no. 206, illustrated (as Stue i Strandgade 30. 1900)
Jane Abdy, 'Great Danes', in Interiors, April 1984, p. 131, illustrated
Kirk Varnedoe, Northern Light, New Haven & London, 1988, p. 110
Martin Butlin, 'Copenhagen and Paris: Vilhelm Hammershøi' in Burlington Magazine, February 1998, p. 140, fig. 66, illustrated

Provenance

Dr Simon, Berlin (sale: Winkel and Magnussen, Copenhagen, 4 February 1930, lot 39)
Agathe and Knud Neye (purchased at the above sale); sale: Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, 4 May 1976, lot 26
Sale: Christie's, London, 29 March 1990, lot 42
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Auction Details

European Paintings

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Sotheby's
November 22, 2011, 12:00 PM GMT

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