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Vilhelm Hammershøi (b. Copenhagen 1864, d. s.p. 1916)

“Hvide døre. Interiør fra Strandgade 25”. White doors, Strandgade 25. 1913. Unsigned. Oil on canvas. 45×40 cm. Inscribed on the back (in Danish): Painted by Vilh. Hammershøi, Auction 1916 No. 8, Karl Madsen.

Sophus Michaëlis and Alfred Bramsen, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Vilhelm Hammershøi no. 364, here with the title “Stue” (Living Room) and the description (in Danish): “In the foreground to the right an open white door. In the background another open door with a view into the room behind.”

Susanne Meyer-Abich, A Catalogue Raisonnè of the Works of Vilhelm Hammershøi in “Vilhelm Hammershøi: Das Malerische Werk", 1995, no. 365.

Exhibited: Kunstforeningen, “Fortegnelse over arbejder af Vilhelm Hammershøi”, 1916 no. 105.

Provenance: The estate auction of the late Vilhelm Hammershøi 1916 no. 8. Here acquired by merchant J. Chr. T. Levinsen. Bruun Rasmussen auction 795, 2008 no. 64. Sotheby's, London, 13 December 2017, no 12.

Condition

Condition report on request. Please contact: fine-art@bruun-rasmussen.dk

Additional Remarks

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Auction

Paintings and drawings, 26 November 2019

Category
Estimate

4,000,000–5,000,000 DKK

Price realised

Not sold