European & British Art

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Property from a European Private Collection

Vilhelm Hammershøi

Greenland Trade Wharf, Christianshavn, Copenhagen

Lot Closed

July 14, 01:09 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a European Private Collection

Vilhelm Hammershøi

Danish

1864 - 1916

Greenland Trade Wharf, Christianshavn, Copenhagen


signed with initials lower right

oil on panel

Unframed: 37.5 by 46cm., 14¾ by 18in.

Framed: 58 by 66.5cm., 22¾ by 26¼in.

Ole Olsen (by 1918; sale: V. Winkel & Magnussen, Copenhagen, 17 January 1944, lot 730)
In the possession of the current owners’ grandparents by at least the 1950s (and likely bought by them at the above sale); thence by descent
Alfred Bramsen & Sophus Michaëlis, Vilhelm Hammershøi. Kunstneren og hans værk, Copenhagen & Christiania, 1918, p. 107, no. 311 
Poul Vad, Hammershøi, Værk og liv, Copenhagen, 1988, p. 339, illustrated, p. 457, catalogued, no. 311
Annette Rosenvold Hvidt & Gertrud Oelsner, Vilhelm Hammershøi. På sporet af det åbne billede, Copenhagen, 2018, p. 240, catalogued & illustrated, p. 558, catalogued