Vilhelm Hammershøi

Interior. The Music Room, Strandgade 30

Auction Closed

May 17, 12:56 AM GMT

Estimate

3,000,000 - 5,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Danish Private Collection

Vilhelm Hammershøi

1864 - 1916

Interior. The Music Room, Strandgade 30

signed with initials VH (lower right)

oil on canvas

27 ½ by 23 ¼ in. 70 by 59 cm.

Executed in 1907.

Winkel & Magnussen, Copenhagen, October 1910, lot 17
Ole Olsen, Copenhagen (acquired by 1916)
Lady Abrahamsen, Copenhagen (acquired by 1941)
Winkel & Magnussen, Copenhagen, 28 February 1944, lot 717 (consigned by the estate of the above)
Private Collection, Denmark (acquired at the above sale)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Sophus Michaëlis and Alfred Bramsen, Vilhelm Hammershøi. Kunstneren og hans værk, Copenhagen and Kristiania, 1918, no. 308, p. 107
Poul Vad, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Copenhagen, 1957, pp. 21-22; pl. 37, illustrated
Poul Vad, Hammershøi. Værk og liv, Copenhagen, 1988, p. 382, illustrated
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (authors Pauline Lehmann Banke, Gianluca Pastorelli, Annette S. Ortiz Miranda, Loa Ludvigsen, Troels Filtenborg, Anne Haack Christensen), The Vilhelm Hammershøi Digital Archive Project, ongoing, The Music Room analyzed in SMK’s laboratories and included in the archive 2022, no. EKS1175

Copenhagen, Kunstforeningen, Arbejder af Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1916, no. 75

Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, Mit bedste Kunstværk, 1941, no. 74

Oslo, Kunstforening, Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1955, no. 37

Copenhagen, Kunstforeningen, Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1955, no. 42

Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard, Hammershøi, 1981, no. 119, p. 141, illustrated

Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard, Paris, Musée d’Orsay, and New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Vilhelm Hammershøi: Danish Painter of Solitude and Light, 1997-98, no. 50, illustrated

Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard, At Home with Hammershøi, 2016, no. 73, illustrated