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Property of a Lady

Vilhelm Hammershøi

Sunshine in the Drawing Room II

VAT reduced rate

Estimate

3,000,000 - 5,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Vilhelm Hammershøi

1864 - 1916

Sunshine in the Drawing Room II

signed V. Hammershøi (lower right)

oil on canvas

57.3 by 64.2 cm. 22½ by 25¼ in.

Executed in 1903.

Private collection, Copenhagen (acquired by c. 1910)

Thence by descent in the same family to the present owner

Sophus Michaëlis and Alfred Bramsen, Vilhelm Hammershøi. Kunstneren og hans værk, Copenhagen and Kristiania 1918, no. 247, p. 101, illustrated

Poul Vad, Hammershøi. Værk og liv, Copenhagen 1988, pp. 188, 201 and 455, illustrated on p. 201

Munich, Glaspalast, X. Internationale Kunstausstellung, 1909, no. 606, p. 61, illustrated (titled Interieur )

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