Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
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.
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
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