Property from a Danish Private Collection
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; Olsen (1863-1943) was a Danish film producer who in 1906 founded Nordisk Films Kompagni, which quickly became one of the world’s leading film companies with branches in Berlin, London, Vienna, Paris, and New York. He was at the forefront of the golden age of Danish film in the 1910s. His films included Atlantis (1913), The End of the World (1916), and A Trip to Mars (1918). During the First World War Denmark lost most of its export markets due to unrestricted German submarine warfare in the North and Baltic Seas; and when Germany nationalized its own film industry Nordisk was forced to relinquish all its interests there. In 1922 Olsen had no choice but to resign as CEO and two years later was bought out of the company. Thereafter he dedicated himself to building an extensive collection of art and crafts and paintings.)
Lady Elvira Abrahamsen (née Lady Elvira Olsen), Copenhagen (daughter of the above, by 1941) (1896 - at least 1951)
Winkel & Magnussen, Copenhagen, 28 February 1944, lot 717 (consigned by the estate of Ole Olsen)
Private Collection, Denmark (acquired at the above sale)
Thence by descent to the present owner
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